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As Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced more like a PC than a console, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead says its decision not to sell at a loss "isn't stupid," but it is "peculiar"
News He argues that the loss will be offset by people buying more games on Steam
A few hundred employees working on "self-directed projects" has made Valve one of the world's most profitable-per-person companies, on track to top $17 billion this year and shame the likes of Google and Meta
News You get a yacht, and you get a yacht
Steam Machine price "more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market," confirms Valve – but "ideally we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal"
News It makes sense, "at that level of performance"
Former Xbox exec and Blizzard boss urges Valve to "please just let 3rd parties use SteamOS" to make their own Steam Machines: "SteamOS will take off and your Store revenue will only go up"
News Although some argue that goes against what the Steam Deck's best asset is
Rust dev shoots down hopes of playing the hit survival game on Valve's Steam Machine: "There are no plans to support Proton or Linux"
News Compatibility would open the game to cheaters
Valve hasn't unleashed any Black Friday deals yet, so I'm glad Lenovo's souped-up Steam Deck is under $500
Deals Steam Deck Black Friday deals aren't a thing yet, but the Lenovo Legion Go S is a solid SteamOS alternative for under $500 right now at Best Buy.
Asked about a $500 Steam Machine, Valve apparently wasn't impressed: "The energy in the room wasn't great"
News The GabeCube might be "priced like a PC rather than like a console"
Steam Machine is "Microsoft's worst nightmare" according to analysts, and one day Xbox games might be more beneficial to Valve than their own publisher: "Xbox console sales have really struggled"
News Well, that's ominous
