The attention of gamers is no longer in the hands of the Games industry, which is presently engaging in misleading hype, pre-order culture, and walled-garden mindset. Instead a lot of it has gone to just regular gamers who put themselves on Youtube and aren't in the pockets of publishers.

exactly because people start making a living off twitch/youtube game videos it is going back into the hands of the game industrie. you may watch this (totalbiscuit) microsoft paying gamers for positive videos [External Link]
maybe im alone here but i see no positive sides in the commercialization of which was once a hobby. i wouldnt mind at all if this all reverts back to its earlier state and people dont earn their buck of it anymore (and thus eventually accept money from developers / industries instead of relying on advertisment alone, please dont tell me it isnt happening atleast in a "free streamkeys and hardware gifts" way.. plz).

gamers that stream or upload may have been an independent source to review a game when this all started but nowadays its just $_€ in most of their faces once they get some subscribers and give up their jobs for this.

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Frank Azor has already commented this:

"Alienware is very optimistic about PC gaming's future and its opportunity to extend to the TV. We have been partners with Valve since the inception of the Steam Machine over 2 years ago. Our decision to invest in developing the purpose-built Alienware Steam Machine, pairing it with incredible performance and pricing it as aggressively as possible has everything to do with how much we believe in this vision and want to see it materialize."

so by saying "least profitable" he pointed out indeed how they will have very little profit per piece due to agressive pricing. just like others stated this has little to do with them thinking they will sell badly (and even if it does, they invest more into the idea in a longterm perspective)

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get this people! just played a bit of "Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers" and its extremly well made and fun. considering you can get all of them for a little >2€ its a nobrainer, really

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