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Valve will get a wholesale price, and may not even try to make profit off it, much like Google and amazon. They make money off the platform anyway, so charging
by lnanek2 13y ago
Valve will get a wholesale price, and may not even try to make profit off it, much like Google and amazon. They make money off the platform anyway, so charging more than cost on something that gets people on the platform is silly.
- ekianjo 13y agowholesale price depends a lot on volumes, though. its very hard to know at this stage what to expect in trms of market sales. launching new hardware without prior experience is very. very tough. But as long as they are willing to learn, its doable.
- manojlds 13y agoMuch like Microsoft and Sony.
- zokier 13y agoValve won't be getting any significant volume discount, because they won't be making any significant amounts of steam machines. The retail units will be made by several OEMs and in several configurations, so it's likely that no single model will be selling in massive volumes and be eligible for massive discounts. The situation is actually quite similar to the Android world. Google makes the platform and others make the phones, Valve also provides a platform and lets others make the steam machines.