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[Holammer]

They should start some new game focused studios IMO, develop some clever AA games and put the dragon hoard to good use. Like a small team to run TF2 for example, because nobody in that hippie collective wants to work on it.
Getting into the exclusive game by developing its own or securing an Steam exclusive AAA third party developed game like Monster Hunter, like Nintendo did with Rise? That feels antithetical to how Valve operates.

 

[Manic27]

Do you know how much of a risk it is to create a AAA game for 100s of millions of dollars?

I suppose nobody should do it then...

 

[Guilty_AI]

lmao. They're selling hardware. The point of selling hardware is always to build up a base.

No, steam sells hardware more as proof of concept than anything. They made steam deck to prove there was a market for handheld pcs and turned out to be correct. They now want to bolster the mini-pc market to prove there is a demand for console-like mini-pcs on the living room. From valves perspective, any new venue of gaming pcs on the market is advantageous to them.

 

[IntentionalPun]

lmao. They're selling hardware. The point of selling hardware is always to build up a base.

While everyone wants their products to sell, Valve is somewhat unique in that they don't have much interest in their hardware sales to scale that high.

Maybe they'll change that, but for now their hardware team is small and they have very few people working their supply chain, which is relatively amateur for a company with so much revenue.

So they don't sit around thinking about how to sell more Index's or Steam Machines or even Steam Decks as their primary goals are to make the products they want to make within the confines of the company they've built. They've been insanely stagnant on their employee count and they have extremely high expectations of these employees and very high pay, but aren't trying to grow at all.

 

[Manic27]

No, steam sells hardware more as proof of concept than anything. They made steam deck to prove there was a market for handheld pcs and turned out to be correct. They now want to bolster the mini-pc market to prove there is a demand for console-like mini-pcs on the living room. From valves perspective, any new venue of pcs is advantageous to them.

Ah yes, they want to just prove there's markets out there and not sell to them.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Do you know how much of a risk it is to create a AAA game for 100s of millions of dollars?

Jumping the gun abit. Would be nice if they bankrolled indies first instead of buying and immediatly dissolving them.