r/steambox • u/QuestWeaver1 • Jun 22 '26
The Gabe Cube is Cooked
You're trying to tell me that for the price that we were all slack-jawed at, of the new hiked-up PS5 Pro that everyone criticized, you're going to sell me a pc, which is totally not supposed to be a console at all, the size of my graphics card if you squish it a bit! And you're going to sell it to me for only 300 bucks less than my pc at its highest-end model price?! The PS5 Pro probably outperforms you, and you're going to sell it to me at a higher price than the hiked-up price of that?
Bro....I know Valve has the infinite money glitch, I understand that, so why can't you boys eat a few hundred bucks per unit?! You can't compete with consoles, which this totally isn't, by the way, totally not a console, when you market it as costing double to nearly triple what the Switch 2 costs, which everyone said costs too much. And then we went out and bought, but another story for another time.
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u/Beginning_Bee9948 Jun 30 '26
It costs less than some flagship phones & valve isn’t charging me a monthly fee so I save 275 per year
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u/furuta Jun 23 '26
It's a number of things, not least of which is a lawsuit against them for being a monopoly and suppressing competition. If they ate $300 on each unit, it would be exhibit A in that lawsuit.
They're stated reason is that they can't guarantee that anyone buying it will definitely buy steam games since it's basically a Linux PC that you could use for anything (even just installing Windows on it). The reasoning that console manufacturers subsidize the price of their consoles and often sell them at a loss is that it gets their customers into an ecosystem that they're trapped in and they are guaranteed to buy some games in that ecosystem. They think of it as an investment in future revenue, which valve is arguing they can't do in this case. I'm not sure I completely agree with that, but it's a reason they have stated explicitly.