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  • Ulrich@feddit.orgtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.English
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    19 hours ago

    What you’re saying doesn’t contradict that on Steam Machine you’re going to buy games from Valve only so it doesn’t matter that you can, in theory, buy from somewhere else.

    What you’re saying is just false. This is not a theory. I’ve owned a “Steam machine” for several years and regularly acquire and play games from other stores. Whether you buy games from Valve is entirely up to you.

    The bigger your library grows, the less likely you are to start buying games in another ecosystem.

    No. That makes zero sense.

    Valve doesn’t care if you „jailbreak”

    There is no jailbreaking. There’s nothing to break. The system already allows you to do whatever you want. Just go into the menu and select “exit to desktop”.

    they can get around tariffs by selling this console as a PC.

    Why would you think PCs aren’t impacted by tariffs?

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgtoGames@sh.itjust.works•Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be.English
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    21 hours ago

    This is an illusion of an open system.

    Well that’s certainly an…unusual position.

    Steam obviously, there’s no competition.

    There’s definitely competition. Is the competition great? Not really. But you can still buy and install games from Epic, Itch and GOG and run them on Steam hardware. It’s just not as convenient. There’s not really anything they can do about that. I hope one day soon someone makes a better frontend that supports other platforms better, and if they do, you’ll be able to install it on Steam hardware, because that’s what an open system means.

    Closed hardware looks Like PS5, XBOX and Switch. No browser. No desktop. No access to any files. No mods. No emulation. No third party stores AT ALL. And in fact if you try to do any of those things, they will remotely brick your device.

    Then as your library grows you get more and more vendor locked.

    Not sure how you get there…