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I haven't seen Valve advance a reason for these to exist outside of their worry at having to compete with Microsoft on their own platform. Which as a reason is
by cwyers 11y ago
I haven't seen Valve advance a reason for these to exist outside of their worry at having to compete with Microsoft on their own platform. Which as a reason is completely besides the point for the consumer, which I think is why we have these confusing machines that combine the worst aspects of PC and console gaming.
- chaostheory 11y agoThere would be more of a reason for these machines to exist if there were more apps on Steam besides games. Maybe Valve can do more deals like the one they have with blender?
- lfowles 11y agoThey do have an entire Software category now, although it's mostly tools for game dev. You Need A Budget being the only outlier I can think of. http://store.steampowered.com/search/#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&category1=994&page=1&aff_id=101 http://store.steampowered.com/search/#sort_by=Reviews_DESC&c...
- chaostheory 11y agoYes that's my point. They need more normal apps so that people don't need to leave Steam OS to do productive stuff. They need to be more aggressive in getting them i.e. they won't take a cut of sales
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoAs the prices of hardware falls, the share you're paying to Microsoft increases. Look at the history of MPEG2 licences and DVD players, what was a reasonable cost of doing business when DVD players cost $1000 became unreasonable when they are only selling for $10. The value Windows offers decreases too as it become more and more reasonable to buy a PC for nothing more than gaming, whereas before you'd need a bunch of uses to justify the cost. Would Windows make sense on the streaming box for example?