You’re ignoring my main point: Valve is in a similar boat as Nintendo in that their business model differs from Playstation and XBox.

The reason XBox and Playstation have been competing in in console wars the past 20 years is that they’re trying to offer the exact same thing.

Valve doesn’t need to compete over hardware or exclusives. A lot of people that buy consoles despite already having PC libraries are because they want to play on their couch instead of a desk and because they just want something that is plug-and play. They could stream to their TV with a Steam Link or Raspberry Pi, but that’s extra setup and a less clean experience. If Valve offers a standardized, prebuilt HTPC to fill that role, that target audience has less reason to buy a console.

And since you’re harping on power: Playstation isn’t likely to significantly change their hardware specifications in a few months. They can make some adjustments, but development takes time so there’s not going to be groundbreaking changes just to respond to Valve. Not only that, there’s precedent of more powerful and capable consoles losing to their competition due to other factors, an notable example being the Sega Saturn. You can’t distill sales down into one single defining metric. That’s a take I would expect from a child.

And to expand on competing market space: Valve doesn’t have to restrict their products to just console competitors. They build PCs. Remember Intel NUC’s? From the leaks and rumors, I’m expecting Valve’s product to be structurally similar to those, opening up another market space. And even if Valve doesn’t sell all the units, if the NUC-style form factor overall expands more in terms of units and usage for gaming, Steam still wins since they’re expanding the PC gaming market. We saw the same thing with the Steam Deck, where competitors started popping up, but Valve was making money on those as well since people mainly buy PC games via Steam.

Nintendo continually releases underpowered consoles and sells similar numbers to Sony without issues.

Steam (and PC gaming in general) have access to significantly more games and exist on an open ecosystem, which are already big selling points.

Not only that, the biggest things keeping people from buying into the PC ecosystem are cost and complexity. They don’t want to pay >$1k to play games and they don’t want to have to futz around with a desktop. Valve has already demonstrated they can do both with the Steam Deck.

Who cares if the PS6 ends up having slightly more performance? There’s more factors than raw performance. And those who are obsessed with performance but unwilling to put up the cash for a decent PC can just lock themselves away in the PS ecosystem. Their loss.

As much as I loved the original trilogy, I’m still not gonna buy a Switch 2. Nintendo can burn in hell

Waiting to see Silksong suck on release and their fanbase getting really pissed off about it.

HK fans are really toxic to anything but absolute praise for the franchise

The pro-gamer move party will key in on “Unlimited Resource” and turn the Generate-A-Spectre button into a steam engine.

A good GM would realize they can have the theoretically “Unlimited Resource” run out between 5-10 uses

Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk. And they’re the ones I’m calling out

Not to the degree in OP’s post. If your kids are 30 and you’re dictating what they should do without any input from them, that’s a problem.

Whem your kids are adults, you don’t get to make decisions for them anymore. You can give guidance and advice, but you don’t get to decide what they do

That’s their fault for voting for Trump or not voting at all

Don’t forget to pick up the Keyoushi extensions to make it work

Why is the dude on the left almost always the example?

Nice, I’ve had this on my wishlist for ages

Also: NO, 4-WHEEL DRIVE DOESN’T MAKE YOU STOP FASTER IN SNOW. All it does is help you get unstuck if you slide off the road.

If you’re driving in winter conditions, you have to drive slower and allow for significantly more distance from the next car forward. Like, actually follow the 3-second rule and then double it. Also, always keep an ice scaper and an emergency blanket in the car. You will need the ice scraper. You hopefully won’t need the blanket, but it’s better safe than sorry.

people think all tacos are hard shell, stale-ass Taco Bell abominations. I just can’t even sometimes.

While you do see some people in the north that can’t take spice, this quote is just wrong

Keep in mind that the Pacific Northwest is getting due for the Cascadia earthquake. Based on the historical records have been found it’s bad

The fanbase will lose their shit with anger and I’ll be there with popcorn laughing at them

Bootlicker spotted.

a large number of men feel isolated, unvalued by society, and dysfunctional, but it’s not 100%.

My solution to this has been to join a hobby that happens to check off a lot of criteria

• Physical exercise
• Interesting people
• Teaching and mentorship, with opportunities on both sides of that fence
• Camraderie
• Promotion of positive masculinity

For me that’s the SCA, a medieval reenactment organization. But my local area has a lot of good people in the organization and unfortunately not every area is filled with great people. Plus, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s fine.

*Thunder screwdriver

For the pegasus, are they factoring in possibilities like having hollow bones like birds do to reduce weight? Granted, that would severely hamper their abilities to be a horse, but maybe they’re not supposed to be beasts of burden?

The sad thing is I’m not even surprised that Meta has that stance. A few years back, people were up in arms claiming there was a bunch of CSAM on Pornhub despite the site having robust systems to prevent it. Meanwhile there was orders of magnitude more CSAM on Facebook and Twitter that was ignored