{"id":1409359,"date":"2025-11-28T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/R7wEnNk5MX2SfUT7PY5ddd"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:16:35","slug":"valves-decision-not-to-sell-the-steam-machine-at-a-loss-isnt-stupid-but-it-is-peculiar-says-baldurs-gate-3-publishing-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valves-decision-not-to-sell-the-steam-machine-at-a-loss-isnt-stupid-but-it-is-peculiar-says-baldurs-gate-3-publishing-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve&#8217;s decision not to sell the Steam Machine at a loss &#8216;isn&#8217;t stupid&#8217; but it is &#8216;peculiar&#8217; says Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 publishing boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>We reported recently on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/valve-coder-confirms-the-steam-machine-will-be-priced-like-a-pc-albeit-at-a-good-deal-if-you-build-a-pc-from-parts-and-get-to-basically-the-same-level-of-performance-thats-the-general-price-window-that-we-aim-to-be-at\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valve&#8217;s indication that the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC<\/a>, not a console. Valve has since confirmed that it <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HazzadorGamin\/status\/1992299281890595121\" target=\"_blank\">does not plan to sell the Steam Machine at a loss<\/a>, which is a reasonably common console play, the idea being to get people using a given platform and then make money on game sales.<\/p>\n<p>Could that\u2014even, should that\u2014model apply to the Steam Machine? The publishing director of Larian Studios, the outfit behind Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 among other high-profile games, clearly thinks so.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know subsidising hardware is unfashionable now but surely they&#8217;re losing far more than a ~200$ difference by not having people on the storefront, which is essentially a money printing machine. That said it isn&#8217;t stupid to not sell things at a loss, just peculiar in this case. https:\/\/t.co\/9J3Y4EXoq9<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1992669448722079902\">November 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>News that the Steam Machine won&#8217;t be subsidised was enough to have Michael Douse commenting on X. &#8220;I know subsidising hardware is unfashionable now but surely they&#8217;re losing far more than a ~200$ difference by not having people on the storefront, which is essentially a money printing machine. That said it isn&#8217;t stupid to not sell things at a loss, just peculiar in this case,&#8221; Douse said.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Douse thinks the money Valve would lose selling the Steam Machine at a $200 loss per unit would be more than made up by the money Steam Machine owners then spend on the Steam gaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>Taken at face value, Douse has a point. Selling hardware at a loss in order to make money on some kind of software or subscription service is a common enough practice. As mentioned above, that applies to games consoles. And isn&#8217;t the Steam Machine a games console?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fBGCDZVtMUkBsQmVijzzQR\" name=\"steam-machine-12\" alt=\"Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/valves-decision-not-to-sell-the-steam-machine-at-a-loss-isnt-stupid-but-it-is-peculiar-says-baldurs-gate-3-publishing-boss.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Inside, it&#8217;s essentially standard PC components&#8230; <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Up to a point, absolutely, yes. But it&#8217;s also a PC that could be used for pretty much any PC task. Likely, it will be no problem to install a totally different operating system on the Steam Machine and not use any Valve services or software at all.<\/p>\n<p>In that scenario, Valve will have subsidised the hardware for nothing. Of course, it&#8217;s hard to say how many people would actually go out and buy a cheap Steam Machine to do non-Steam-based things with it. But it would certainly be some. If the Steam Machine was really cheap, no doubt Valve would end up having to put measures in place to stop businesses buying the things en masse to deploy for work use.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s likely the most obvious impediment to a subsidised Steam Machine, it&#8217;s also worth noting that Valve isn&#8217;t quite like other companies. As some have observed in response to Douse&#8217;s post on X, Valve may simply not be all that &#8220;desperate&#8221; to grow the Steam user base via a subsidised box.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, perhaps Valve only wants its hardware business to grow to a certain scale rather than becoming a huge global operation as per Sony and Microsoft&#8217;s console businesses. Long story short, maybe Valve is OK with the Steam Machine remaining relatively niche.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/valves-decision-not-to-sell-the-steam-machine-at-a-loss-isnt-stupid-but-it-is-peculiar-says-baldurs-gate-3-publishing-boss\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reported recently on Valve&#8217;s indication that the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, not a console. Valve has since confirmed that it does not plan to sell the Steam Machine at a loss, which is a reasonably common console play, the idea being to get people using a given platform and then make money on game sales. Could that\u2014even, should that\u2014model apply to the Steam Machine? The publishing director of Larian Studios, the outfit behind Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 among other high-profile games, clearly thinks so. I know subsidising hardware is unfashionable now but surely they&#8217;re losing far more than a ~200$ difference by not having people on the storefront, which is essentially a money printing machine. That said it isn&#8217;t stupid to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valves-decision-not-to-sell-the-steam-machine-at-a-loss-isnt-stupid-but-it-is-peculiar-says-baldurs-gate-3-publishing-boss\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1409360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-1409359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Valve&#039;s decision not to sell the Steam Machine at a loss &#039;isn&#039;t stupid&#039; but it is &#039;peculiar&#039; says Baldur&#039;s Gate 3 publishing boss | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We reported recently on Valve&#039;s indication that the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, not a console. 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