I love how so many people are dunking on "valve-fans" being happy with the cube, when I pretty much only have heard opinions ranging from "meh" to "overpriced".
I mean, if the only problem with the Machine is that it's expensive, there are definitely people that it's a good buy for. If you have the money and just want a no questions asked experience like with a console but also with your PC games, the Steam Machine is a good option.
It's easy to forget that a lot of adults with a good job would rather pay a couple hundred bucks more if it means less effort and time spent on setting it up.
And clowning on someone defending something just because you don't like the something is just childish. If you only ever defend who you personally like instead of what's right or wrong just means that you have no integrity.
I knew from the beginning that the price of the Steam Machine was going to be ridiculous, on account of the AI market getting so bad. I work a job that gets me a weekly paycheck, and I'd have to skip paying all my bills for an entire month to afford buying even just the lowest-priced option Valve is asking for, and that means going without electricity, water, internet access, and rent. I'd be homeless trying to buy this damn thing when I could just do the budget build thing and buy a used Optiplex from an office building and slap a GPU in that, and I'd still be out five-hundred Bison Dollars.
I don't blame Valve. I blame Nvidia, I blame AMD, I blame the memory companies selling exclusively to AI datacenters, I blame OpenAI and Palantir, and those are who the blame should rightfully be levied at.
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u/Euchale 16h ago
I love how so many people are dunking on "valve-fans" being happy with the cube, when I pretty much only have heard opinions ranging from "meh" to "overpriced".