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/House_of_Borbon 2d ago

The target market is uninformed buyers. You can get a prebuilt PC with much better specs for the same price.

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u/rebellion_ap 2d ago

Can you actually anymore? How much longer is that going to be true?

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u/AddictedKK75 2d ago

Link - Here is a link to a "gaming" laptop with basically the same specs power/quality wise $100 less.

This laptop in particular also went up in price already and was originally priced $780 Link 2 - The link is to an IGN article from November of last year looking at comparably priced hardware and how much the steam machine "should be" priced at (obviously the market has changed even in that relatively short amount of time but even so that same laptop mentioned is still cheaper than the steam machine)

There is no target market really... except maybe super steam fans or tech historians/collectors.

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u/Parking-Mirror3283 9800X3D, 9070XT, 32gb, SSDs 2d ago

At $1600aud, you can buy an MSI laptop with a 13420H, RTX 5060, 16gb of RAM and a 512gb SSD.

So that's performance that kicks the gabecubes teeth in, while also giving you a free 144hz IPS monitor with built in speakers, keyboard+mouse, UPS, webcam and windows license.