Gaming on Yik Yak | I know times are tough with AI, but Valve is acting like they're buying their parts straight from Best Buy, like did they forget they're a multi-billion dollar company, $1050 for 500 GB, and a ps5 level pc? Couldn't even add the controller in there 😂

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Gaming 1d

I know times are tough with AI, but Valve is acting like they're buying their parts straight from Best Buy, like did they forget they're a multi-billion dollar company, $1050 for 500 GB, and a ps5 level pc? Couldn't even add the controller in there 😂

Anonymous 1d

I mean I see ur argument, but markup on many of these components isn’t exactly high. Like sure they could get it a little cheaper if they buy the components in bulk from a supplier (plus they wouldn’t need to pay sales tax) but at the end of the day, companies like Nvidia and AMD want to make money too, and since gaming GPUs arent their big money makers, they already aren’t selling for much more than it costs to produce them.

Anonymous 22h

idk why people are complaining about the controller thing. you can buy it with or without one included because tons of people already have their controllers. what's the issue there?

Anonymous 20m

Bruv, Valve isn’t Microsoft, Sony, Apple, or Nintendo. They don’t get to buy their parts at nearly the volume discounts these other companies can, nor can they take a loss assuming the buyer is required to stay in their ecosystem like an Xbox, PlayStation, or MacBook. If you want to install your own OS and pirate all your games, Valve can’t stop you.

Anonymous

#1 1d

Plus, yes steam is a large company, but look who we’re comparing them to

Anonymous

#1 18m

The volume discount comparison is the real deal here. Valve plans to sell like what, a couple hundred thousand of these out the gate? They have no idea what demand is like. This isn’t like the literal millions of game consoles sold by the big players. The comparison to these other devices sold at a loss is so weak.