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Steam Machine prices are out, waiting list available (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/games@hexbear.net
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i moved recently and don't have a TV anymore so my excitement for this kinda dwindled. the 2TB price seems like a bit of a hard sell, but honestly i expected them to be even wilder given the circumstances. personally much more excited for the Steam Frame

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[–] [S] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

the cool thing would be to sell it as a loss leader they could circumvent scalpers/corpo buyers to some degree by offering cash back in steam bucks

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    valve has active monopoly lawsuits going on, selling a loss leader will be seen as anti competitive, plus that's not a loss leader, that's a console with a $300 dollar mandatory bundle of store credit. it's not even good for not incentivizing scalpers, they can just sell the entire account with the steam bucks on it. they chose a complicated queue system to combat scalpers.

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