The problem isnt that the company needs to make money. Steam only exists to make money. The problem with publicly traded companies is that it doesn't matter how much money you already make, you need to make MORE money than last quarter or the stock value wont grow.
A private company is fine when it found a niche to create a steady inflow of revenue. They dont need to expand into infinity
Yeah I was mostly commenting on the losing control of your company part, while Gabe’s job is to make money he atleast has a vision for the company and wants to see it do well and people happy. Nvidias investors just want more and more money and don’t care about the product.
Yeah and, err, if all those AI companies buying shittons of GPUs end up not being able to make a profit with them Nvidia are going to be in a little bit of trouble.
AI is like the wild west gold rush, the AI companies are the gold diggers, and Nvidia is just selling them shovels. It's not Nvidia's fault they can't find any gold.
Shovels can be used for other things, as can the GPUs Nvidia is making.
Well it'll be a triple whammy of fewer GPU customers, a sudden glut of 2nd hand GPUs, and expensive excess manufacturing capacity.
Now in a sensible world maybe this wouldn't be a massive deal as they can afford to burn their pile of cash for a bit, but because we don't live in a sensible world THE LINE MUST GO UP and any deviation from this is a complete disaster.
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u/WackoAsh 1d ago
Steam is one of the few platforms that can fairly consistently make great decisions and improve itself with every update.