They may be trying to muscle in on traditional console territory.

Steam has a well tenured reputation for having inexpensive games. They may be leveraging this to appeal to the console players turned off by the all recent price hikes.

I suspect the gabecube may be close to if not, at cost. I don’t think it’ll be at a loss.

Gabe has previously claimed that they developed the index because they didn’t want VR to die and even gave grants the game developers who made VR titles.

So it’s established that Steam is big enough and secure enough to risk cultivating new or disrupting old markets.

Operationally steam has low overhead and insane profit margin. Unless they fuck up the steam store they’re guaranteed massive profit.

If the new hardware flops and they lose a bit of money; Gabe just buys one less yacht and steam ticks on as normal.

It’s so bad, basically every post there is pushed by bots. The entire purpose of reddit is to shape opinion by forced consensus.

It’s a propaganda machine inside the bloated husk of a forum aggregator.

Lemmy isn’t impervious but it’s much better than reddit.

70% by what metric?

Is that going by bugs identified, fixes implemented, headcount?

Rockstar PC ports are always dogshit for the first 5 years of their existence.

I’ll just wait for it to be $5 on sale when it’s finally stable.

It’s more that until you’re ready to strike you have to remain invisible.

It doesn’t matter if you do everything right, they’ll either lie or frame you.

They can’t counter what they don’t know about.

It’s really useful for troubleshooting unfamiliar devices if you have a PDF of the documentation.

Beyond surface level troubleshooting it’s mostly for parsing large amounts of text for relevant information

This is so similar to the dotcom boom where people overestimated the technology and how quickly we would achieve the promised goals.

Half of the shit promised in the 90’s only came about in the early 10’s after literal decades of building the infrastructure.

I don’t think it’ll completely go away but people will eventually figure out it’s no magic bullet and it’ll see significantly less investment.

Journalism at large died a while ago, gaming journalism has been an absolute joke for over a decade.

I have no respect for 99% of modern journalists, they just push 1%er propaganda and post mugshots while jerking themselves off as being self appointed “guardians of democracy.”

There are some who are trying to do some good and they have my utmost respect but they’re needles in haystacks.