I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised, I’ve worked at both functional and dysfunctional large corporations, either themselves tech corps or in the tech wing/department of other large orgs.

The PS3 is yes, a great example of making a versatile product that can appeal to many uh, kinds of markets, market demos.

What I am saying is that Valve is probably the most strategically competent tech company in existence, at least in the US, and that they would not willingly allow themselves to be tricked, at the level of long term, big boy corporate strategy.

They are the people who tend to set traps, not walk into them.

You’re talking to an ex-Corpo, lol.

Nonetheless, yes, the PS3 is a great example of what you can do with a product, but I’m trying to analyze the uh, 12D chess or whatever, the actual strategic conditions of the situation that would dictate whether or not it actually makes sense for Valve to do something similar with the Steam Machine.

Right now, no, it does not.

Valves whole thing is basically effectively stealing PC and Xbox gaming away from Microsoft.

It would be silly of them to allow their own tactics to be used against them in an unforced error.