this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
118 points (91.5% liked)
PC Gaming
15304 readers
1023 users here now
For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki
Rules:
- Be Respectful.
- No Spam or Porn.
- No Advertising.
- No Memes.
- No Tech Support.
- No questions about buying/building computers.
- No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
- No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
- No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
- Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I mean if they wanted to lose their asses, sure.
They really wouldn’t.
This is not complicated. Sell open hardware at a loss, buyer doesn't use it to buy games, money is never recuperated. Valve loses their asses.
It’s steam, they hold an effective monopoly on PC game sales.
I’d understand this argument with the steam machine as businesses could buy them cheap for non-gaming use but there really is not much of a non-gaming market for VR hardware.
Did I say Steam games? I said games.
Uhhhh yes? There's an enormous commercial market. One that will grow larger with this headset being released.
If that’s the case the commercial market should be buying up PSVRs and Quest 3s in mass.
Both of those are locked down platforms. For that reason. That's the whole point.
You can stream PC software to a quest 3, you can sideload apps, and PSVR has a PC adapter.
Just because you can stream content from a PC doesn't make it an open platform. Most applications require being able to be run unrestricted on the local device.
It can also sideload apps.
The unrestricted access I'm referring to is at the OS level. Lots of developers need that.
Yeah and Meta used to sell enterprise editions of the Quest 3 that would fit these needs.
Something they stopped because the market doesn’t exist.
I literally gave away my quest 3 headset because of facebook's walled garden ecosystem, ads, and telemetry. If I didn't know someone that was about to buy one I'd have recycled it.
If Valve did the same shit with the Steam Frame I wouldn't even accept one as a gift. I will absolutely pay a premium for hardware I actually own.
They don’t need to put ads in it to subsidize the cost, they literally run the largest PC gaming storefront.