GamingBot@lemmy.zipBM to Gaming@lemmy.zipEnglish · 26 days agoValve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'"www.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up1346arrow-down19cross-posted to: pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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minus-squarehomik@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·26 days agoYet that’s still exactly a thing that many other platforms would do. Maximise lock-in.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·26 days agoGave Newell didn’t get an MBA or the lobotomy that apparently goes with it.
minus-squareshani66@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·25 days agoI’m fairly certain all business degrees or official training is just to indoctrinate the people likely to be in charge later. Capitalism as we know it now wouldn’t survive if any ‘next generation’ ever realized how fucking stupid this all is.
minus-squareSimon_Shitewood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 days agoAnd did, for the last 30 years, but Steam now have the benefit of hindsight having seen how the last 30 years of console wars have gone.
Yet that’s still exactly a thing that many other platforms would do. Maximise lock-in.
Gave Newell didn’t get an MBA or the lobotomy that apparently goes with it.
I’m fairly certain all business degrees or official training is just to indoctrinate the people likely to be in charge later. Capitalism as we know it now wouldn’t survive if any ‘next generation’ ever realized how fucking stupid this all is.
And did, for the last 30 years, but Steam now have the benefit of hindsight having seen how the last 30 years of console wars have gone.