“I can’t tell you what the price will be, because I literally don’t know,” he said on the November 15 episode of the WAN show.

“When I said I’m disappointed it isn’t going to follow a console pricing model, where its subsided by the fact that manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel that would be a more meaningful product, they asked what I meant by console price and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great.”

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    22 hours ago

    Maybe a startup would do it. If they did development of smaller shit like apps or simple web dev. But yeah no, no business would do this because businesses need support deals.

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        21 hours ago

        You think healthcare businesses (I forget healthcare is a business in America, sorry) would be caught using Steam Machines as work stations? They would risk ridicule. Wouldn’t be taken seriously.

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          20 hours ago

          Stop assuming everyone is US please.

          Healthcare around the world is stingy.
          They try to get around buying high capacity backup drives because they paid 200€ for 5 1TB HDDs 6 years ago.

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            18 hours ago

            Stop assuming everyone is US please.

            I didn’t, and usually don’t, so that’s all good and fine. 👍

            Healthcare around the world is stingy.

            I will highly doubt any place would do this. Nobody making these decisions knows enough about computer performance, I bet you. Government decision makers don’t, for sure. 😆