Well yeah I would not expect them to subsidize hardware that is not their own. This is not Valve's Steam Box this is just a third party Steam Box. That is the

Well yeah I would not expect them to subsidize hardware that is not their own. This is not Valve's Steam Box this is just a third party Steam Box. That is the key difference between the Steam Box and consoles, there will be a Valve reference implementation but there will be many other options.