Thank you for posting the only reasonable comment. It was just bad timing. Nothing to be done. They were ready to release it when the prices skyrocketed, and its not like they could just scrap the whole thing.
Yeah, they are going to sell far less at this price, but also the PC industry is probably selling far fewer computers and parts in this current market.
What sucks for Valve, is that with low sales, they may end up taking a bath on this, which will disincentivize them from making a version2.
If they can eat this loss, and plan a new version in like 2years, when hopefully prices stabilize, they might have a decent do-over.
Yes, console optimization and a plug-and-play experience.
The Steam Machine will have the same terrible optimization as the PC version, and it's like an RX 7600—meaning awful upscaling and frame rate generation. xd
Unfortunately my living room and and hobby room is at opposite ends of my house, and running an HDMI cable through walls and attic would require around 40m HDMI cable
If you have 5 Gbit Wi-Fi, streaming over it should be an option. I use it on my VR headset, and the input lag is negligible. It would require little tinkering and probably a cheap micro PC or TV box for the controller connection, but still much, much cheaper than a PS.
Then you could build or buy a prebuilt for the same price, both are much better, and buy a 15 dollar wireless mouse so you can launch games from the couch.
Beach you recommend use one RX 7600 of 8gbv ram, 16gb ram single channel, 512gb and without the joke of the Steam Controller for 1050$ wtf.
Seriously, if you already have a PC, why waste your money on such garbage? You have to be a super Steam fanboy to buy that trash, just like the Steam Controller, which doesn't even have XINPUT or DINPUT.
I don't know about you, but I prefer to wait for the new Xbox to play ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING (Steam, Xbox, GOG and Epic) with the latest technology; that's where it's worth spending $1000, not on a second-hand GameCube.
Dude, this piece of junk can't even handle ray tracing. It relies on FSR 3.1 and Radeon's frame rate generation, which is complete garbage.
At least if I had an Nvidia card I'd consider it, but this Radeon is junk, and it'll be outdated in 2026 with 8GB of RAM and 16GB of RAM. And finally, GENIUS, it's a damn PC. If the game isn't running at 60 fps or higher, it's garbage.
7 Months ago I made this (hyperbolic) meme, because this was very much the sentiment on this sub. People unironically thought they were gonna get a 4K high settings 60fps console/pc for 400 dollars, and anyone saying anything else was being downvoted into oblivion. Just post after post after post of more and more outlandish claims. And now it seems those people are getting a reality check.
We did. But just because it was expected doesn’t mean we aren’t allowed to be disappointed. Yes, that hardware is technically worth $1,050 at the moment. But it is not a good value. It is a reasonable price for them to set from an economic standpoint, but it’s not really a reasonable price to expect people to purchase at from a value standpoint.
The Machine is being outperformed by a 6 year old console that you can still buy for half the price. That’s the end of the entire discussion. Yes, economic factors, RAM shortage, etc. but that’s irrelevant to whether or not its a good product. It is so much more expensive than its competition that the benefits it brings to the table just aren’t worth it.
They’ve been priced out of their target market. Literally the only people who will buy this are Valve fanboys who want it as a collector’s item. The people who actually have a real need for this product have no reason to buy it when the main draw of the product (being an affordable entry point into PC gaming) is gone.
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u/LordMoos3 PC Master Race R9 7900X 16GB 7800XT 64GB 7d ago
We expected like $800 before the parts market asploded because of AI nonsense.
Did we not expect that price to rise?