“I can’t tell you what the price will be, because I literally don’t know,” he said on the November 15 episode of the WAN show.
“When I said I’m disappointed it isn’t going to follow a console pricing model, where its subsided by the fact that manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel that would be a more meaningful product, they asked what I meant by console price and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great.”
Then you understand that the situation is completely different now. The previous Machine required developers to opt into making versions of their games for Linux.
Do those people never buy new PCs? Did you consider that maybe someone might buy this who’s not already a PC gamer? Did you pay attention to the fact that it’s already more powerful than what 70% of Steam users are currently using?
Yeah, I mean if they try and sell it for $1000 it’s not gonna happen, obviously.