There is no evidence as of now. There are scientific hypothesis regarding this exact thing that sound plausible as a standalone thing but there hasn’t been any observational evidence regarding it.

They are pretty much equivalent to our hypothesis regarding dark matter. We knowthere must be something we can’t see and them work backwards from there to fill the gaps.

That’s… pretty much my point.

For the steam deck where 99% of people will use it with steam, selling at a loss is acceptable, so they do it.

The steam machine is just a pc, so they can’t make sure that people use steam, hence the normal market price.

That’s not even the issue, it simply isn’t worth it for chip manufactors to ramp up production.

Chip manufacturing is so expensive that machines have to run at 100% capacity to make reasonable profit margins from consumer hardware. Investment in new factories is only worth it if the demand stays high for 10+ years, which simply doesn’t seem to be the case. Most AI companies will collapse in the next few years and while AI in itself will probably survive, the hardware craze will eventually die down a bit.

With the current hardware prices there isn’t much profit to gain here.

The main difference to other consoles is that they don’t sell at a loss to keep you in their ecosystem like PlayStation and Nintendo do. Valve could afford the cheap prices of the steam deck since its a bit tricky to use as a normal PC, but the steam machine is literally just a PC, selling it at a loss would be stupid for them.

He didn’t deliver on any promise except the stock price itself that’s pumped up by lies and idiots believing in it.

It doesn’t matter how we view them as long as they work.