Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.
  • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    I think Valve fucked itself over with the Steam Machine considering the recent hardware prices, probably their only choice at this point is eat shit and sell it under value.

      • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        Could be, I don’t know how contracts on this scale work, if they secured years worth of components then sure but if it’s just for the first few batches they’re kinda fucked.

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Maybe, but we’ve had like at least a supply chain disruption a year since 2020. Also they’ve spoken about lessons learned about making their own hardware and dealing with supply chains thanks to the knuckles/index.

          It’s been mentioned before but if they’ve got their prices locked in, they may be worried about being too cheap and having their stock grabbed by corps and resellers, rather than steam users.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    Latest cope

    Steam machine being connected to HL3 doesn’t even make sense. It’s not a product targeted at any mass market.

  • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    A lot of PC enthusiasts and media people have been speculating that the series of high tech, industrial over consumption of high end electronics has hurt the consumers, but I think its just going to kill the consumer level electronic industries. From graphics cards, RAM and SSD/HDD all experiencing supply shocks, this generation of PCs consoles and handhelds, even higher end phones are going to balloon in prices and begin to become more and more exclusive to bourgeois class interests. I know AI is a bubble, but I think it will never be allowed to pop because theres nothing to really pop it. At the very least it seems like theres still a lot of gas in the tank and will last for another 2-3 years or so. Even in the wake of a bubble burst, the electronics industries are so tied to the AI agent corporations that theres no way they dont also go under, and the only spoils that we might see will be the second hand mostly burnt out electronics liquidated from these corporations. Its not something we could build a new consumer grade industry off of.