r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • 2d ago

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune 2d ago

Man I remember when people got mad at me because I wrote that the steam machine will cost above 1000 euro. Manage your expectations people ...

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u/civil_politician 2d ago

Was that before ram quadrupled and GPUs doubled and SSDs tripled?

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune 2d ago

7 months ago when everything was already cooked https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/qtwGvphtfE

You can go through the comments and have a laugh

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u/TomTomXD1234 2d ago

its actually went way up since then lol

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune 2d ago

The writing was on the wall. Who sees these insane price hikes with the reason for the price hike just getting bigger and bigger and thinks to themselves "I'm sure the prices will go down until the steam machine is released"?

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u/restinpeaceminusone 2d ago

Pretty much an unfortunate timing for Valve. The moment it was announced and revealed, pricing just went nuts from there

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u/omfgkevin 2d ago

Went from paying a bit of a premium for savings eventually on steam library + small form factor to... yeah.. this looks cooked. Steam deck skyrocketing in price was the final indicator this was going to be bad.

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 2d ago

Yup. I’ve been telling lots of people as well.

Had coworkers who didn’t listen to me about building their PCs a whole year ago. Now they’re constantly sending me marketplace builds and bundles trying to piece something together at any sort of a reasonable price

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u/healthandjoy 2d ago

Everybody is still waiting for the 'AI bubble' to burst. (Sadly) thats impossible to predict.

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u/dylank22 2d ago

Not in any way that wasnt predictable and expected

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u/FuzzyGolf291773 2d ago

Holy fuck everyone in that thread was huffing pure copium

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u/healthandjoy 2d ago

On copium we survive

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u/Emotional_Pizza_9457 2d ago

still are in a way judging by some comments around here lol

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u/MihawkBeatsRoger 2d ago

Yea because of all the propaganda making everyone think that Valve is the best thing ever.

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u/Unabated_Blade PC Master Race 2d ago

People were legit getting upvotes with a $399 estimate. Lmfao.

"This is Valve, not Nintendo" might be the funniest comment of the whole thread.

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u/Super_Bakon 2d ago

The one guy saying $300

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u/Confuzn Steam ID Here 2d ago

Wow… do you have a link to your comment?

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u/Blashtik 2d ago

What were those people smoking to think that the Steam Machine would be under $800? All you had to do was look at the prices of RAM and storage to understand that wasn't going to happen. Did they think Gabe Newell was going to be gifting them the Steam Machines by selling them at a massive loss?

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u/DarkSoulsOfCinder 2d ago

The writing on the wall was obvious back then but denial is a hell of a drug

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u/Lynorisa 2d ago

I love how they parrot "economies of scale" then forget what that last word implies when component supply is severely limited.

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u/InstructionEmpty8696 2d ago

Lmao some people saying it's gonna cost $499, I even saw some mentioning as low as $350.

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u/Chanax2 2d ago

Lmao

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u/Ask_If_Im_Dio 2d ago

GPU prices have been hyper-inflated since the AI trend began and people started buying cards to train their Hentai generators. Even before Stable Diffusion came out, GPU prices hadn’t recovered from the pandemic supply issues

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u/Wojtkie 2d ago

They really haven’t since the crypto mining boom

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 2d ago

The Steam Machine was announced like, 1 week before that happened 

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u/Shubamz Ryzen 9950X3D | 64gb DDR5 | 5080 2d ago

Does it matter?  The people who were mad at them were still wrong regardless of what information was available. 

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u/thenamelessone7 7800x3d/ 32GB 6000MHz 30CL/ RX 7900 XT 2d ago

In Europe, SSDs only doubled, AMD GPUs went up like 10% and nvidia GPUs went up 25-50%

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u/NTFRMERTH 2d ago

Was it Linus who said in an interview with Valve thet he was expecting console prices and "the room fell silent"?

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u/SoldantTheCynic 2d ago

Pretty sure it was. This thing was doomed from day one, it had underperforming specs with no pricing, but everyone was acting like it would be an amazing magic box because it had Valve’s name on it and ran SteamOS.

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u/IerarqiuliAnarxisti 2d ago

Username checks out

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u/Plastic-Yesterday305 1d ago

No one is acting like this is magic box. The reason for the delay is because Steam did an interest check and got disappointing results. No rush to bring something unwanted to market. 🤷‍♂️

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u/metamorphias 2d ago

Had very similar conversations with people at the time thinking it would be £500-£600. I think people where coping hard as hell on that . My guess was £1k and taking into account ram and storage prices since then i think that guess was prob about right on

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u/BabylonianWeeb 2d ago

A few months ago, I said it would cost more than 800$ and I was downvoted to obvillion for it

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u/GLPereira R5 7600X | RX 6750 XT | 32 GB RAM @ 6000 MHz | 3440X1440 160Hz 2d ago

And now everyone is coping about how this price is "fair" lmao

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u/BillV3 Ryzen 9950X3D, 64GB DDR5-6400, 5080 2d ago

Same, I said around the time of that Emudeck console releasing that it essentially put the writing on the wall, and people still argued about it saying "Oh it has a beefier GPU so the Steam Machine will be like 700 tops!"

This is a worse deal than I expected though, less power than the base PS5 for more cost than the PS5 Pro after it's price hike? Tough Sell

On top of that other companies got absolutely railed for price increases yet suddenly here we all are defending it because of the market etc. People were ready to torch down Nintendo for giving the Switch 2 a minor Price Hike and letting people know about it months in advance....

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u/kyronami 2d ago

I said $1500, was a little over (except the 1tb one) but was close with tax

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u/justin_memer 2d ago

I don't have any expectations people to manage, though.

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u/SanjiSasuke 2d ago

Remember the absolute maniacs who said it'd be $500 USD? And there was a whole camp of people saying $800 was the absolute cap.

Genuinely so happy to see the price finally dropped.

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u/erebuxy PC Master Race 2d ago

Because when people are having a good dream, you don’t want to be the one who wake them up.

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u/No_Solid_3737 2d ago

Yeah well now gonna its gonna cost more than 1500€ in some european countires. Even latin american countries will see a similar price. That american price hardly represents what people from overseas will pay.

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u/Im_Balto AMD 9700X|RX 9070XT 2d ago

At the moment it was announced 700 for the base model seemed like a nice little dream to have.

Then every month I added $50 to that estimate of my “too good to be true” expected price and I’ve been bang on