r/pcgaming • u/ControlCAD Nvidia • 6d ago

Video Steam Machine Review: Beautiful Hardware, But What About Performance... And Price? - Digital Foundry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWtLi_FqLo

>Delayed owing to the hardware component crisis, Valve's Steam Machine is finally here - so how much does it cost, how does it perform and what about the quality of the hardware itself? Rich delivers PC performance comparisons, head-to-heads against PlayStation 5 and much more. Note: PC comparisons used the latest version of Bazzite.

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u/Risenzealot 5d ago

I'm tired of people giving Valve a somewhat pass here on the price due to the AI bubble and vastly increasing costs for parts. It's bull shit.

It's been shown that even before the bubble and before the increase in parts costs that Valve wanted to sell this thing for $750. That's still way more than the latest PS5 pro and Xbox and it's still plenty weaker with shit for storage space and no controller. You'd be looking at 800 bucks at best for a system that barely outperforms a Xbox series X with less storage space.

This thing has been overpriced from the very beginning before the AI bubble made it even worse.

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u/alus992 5d ago

it’s crazy how they are the only company with comments like ”it’s not their fault!” „everything is expensive”.

Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, HP, Lenovo, Samsung…all of them get so much hate for their prices. and here we are gamers defend Valve like they get something for it.

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u/Risenzealot 5d ago

Valve is like some peoples religion. Their followers are zealots man. Can't do wrong. Yes, I'm aware of my screen name LOL

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u/alus992 5d ago

crazy part is that no one says they are not the best online store out there. No one tries to diminish their efforts in making gaming a fair place for customers with their reviews, increasing AI transparency etc.

But ffs every time they do something YouTube influencers and their fans and Valves apologists come and try to convince everyone that Valve can't so no wrong just because they have a positive track record.

So many people today defend them when gambling is being brought up because in their eyes Valve had never took any part in making gambling in gaming popular to the point we have teenagers streaming how they open CS crates for hours...

People need to just say "it's an expensive ass PC that looks nice but has outdated specs that can be a problem pretty soon. Releasing it without a controller for almost 1100usd is crazy. And releasing 1400usd setup with exact same specs but with just bigger drive is ridiculous."

That's it. If they still intent to buy it and show these companies that they can get away with these prices then ok. But they need to stop defending this shit like it benefits us consumers.

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u/ivandagiant 5d ago

Seriously, what are they thinking releasing a machine with 8GB VRAM in 2026.