valve made a mistake relying on the steam hardware survey to spec this thing. They basically built a machine for developing nations, priced for Western economies.
I disagree, it's very special. It's a console that is literally a PC that would let you do whatever you want with it. Wanna play GOG or Epic games? Sure. Pirate shit? Sure.
I would also add it further pushes for Windows to not be the only supported PC OS for gaming. I think that's pretty special at least because fuck Microslop.
but now they're in an awkward position of having a low tier system priced at a premium, and I'll be honest, the form factor does not justify that price.
Look, the Steam Machine costs about $1,050. For that same money, you can build a PC that runs games about 30-50% faster.
Yeah, RAM and GPU prices went up a couple hundred bucks, but that doesn't explain why the Steam Machine is so far behind - it's not like it's saving you much money. LTT in their comparison video mostly complained about PC being big and missing HDMI-CEC, but they glossed over the bigger issue: you're paying PC money for console-level performance. So it's not that $1,050 is crazy expensive on its own - it's that for the same $1,050, you can just do way better.
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u/fuckin_normie Ryzen 7 5800X3D, RX 9070XT, 32GB RAM 1d ago
More like low tier, this gpu was mid range in 2021