According to the Valve news post, the traditional console model often involves selling hardware at a loss and making up the money through subscriptions or games locked to that hardware. Valve argues that this can work for one company in the short term, but it is not the kind of ecosystem it wants for PC gaming. The company does not want the Steam Machine to be the only way to play Steam games in the living room. It wants it to be one option among other PCs, handhelds, SteamOS devices, and...
