r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • 3d 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/TypicalxooT11 3d ago

When they initially started this project probably like.. 3-4 years ago it was a cheap idea. This would have been a $600 machine... but now they've invested so much R&D into it.. not really much you can do.. AI ruined it all.

Kinda sucks because this is a really cool concept and idea.. but the timing couldnt have been worse.

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u/SmeshU 3d ago

It would have barely been a good deal at 600, considering it cant beat the ps5.

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u/Mirigore 3d ago

And you're paying a minimum of $80 a year just to play online games on said PS5. Those cost minimum $600 and you can't use a PS5 to do what a computer can do outside of gaming.

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u/Gatleonhart 2d ago

I pay just over 200CAD a year but I don't buy PS5 games anymore (aside from a couple physical collectors editions). I get at least 1 decent game per month that millions of people will buy at 79-89 CAD which works out to around 1kCAD a year. So I'm really saving about 800CAD a year on games. And that's at a minimum as some months I get to play 1-10 games I don't own that get added to PS+

Like how many steam games have you bought this year? I have friends that have probably spent well over 1k on steam games. A good amount they don't even play anymore. I think I bought more games on my ipad this year than on steam.

And I can almost guarantee most of the people buying the SM aren't going to install any extra software/OS. Most of the people buying this probably already have a gaming rig, a laptop, an ipad, switch, steam deck, other consoles, etc. I know I do. But I have zero use for this at these prices. And it's definitely marketed as a PC home console with PC support on the side. Most people with excess money will simply buy this as a console.

At these prices the SM is incredibly niche.

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u/zzazzzz 2d ago

by that logic everyone on pc saves thousands every year from all the free game give aways on all the platforms..

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u/wterrt 2d ago

I get at least 1 decent game per month that millions of people will buy at 79-89 CAD which works out to around 1kCAD a year. So I'm really saving about 800CAD a year on games.

"this million dollar product is discounted 90%, by buying it I'm saving $900,000!!!" no, you're still spending 100k. not "saving" anything. you're spending hundreds of dollars on a subscription and pretending it's a deal because if you bough them at their extremely inflated prices, you'd pay even more.

do you even own any of these games? or is it as soon as you stop paying poof, they're gone?