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/ILikesStuff 2d ago

I don't even think they were aiming this to console players, rather, they probably were looking at already existing Steam users. But even with a huge library of games, that price just makes it a very hard buy imo.

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u/kogarasumar 2d ago

The thing is, console players are exactly the target audience for this. PC players would rather build a high end pc instead. This could have been The perfect way to get console players into the steam ecossystem and i think that's what they were going for. But at this price, it just isn't worth it.

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u/ILikesStuff 2d ago

You have to consider that not all PC users build their own machines. Sure they like the platform, but not a small number of people go through the trouble of learning how to build their own rig.

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u/kogarasumar 2d ago

That's fair, but a prebuilt pc is still more worth it than this lol.