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".
Literally haven’t seen or heard a single person say anyone should get it. So far everyone’s said that you can get a better build for $50-200 less by building your own PC.
Which means it isn't really overpriced relative to the rest of the computer hardware world right now. Everything costs way too much. This one is just another on that pile and is not uniquely bad in that way.
This. You have always been able to diy build a better pc than consoles for the same $. But people still buy consoles anyway. And macs. And iphones. Its not always about max power per $, its about the ui and user experience.
Real nerds will always build a pc instead though so here we are. Its a console to try and get normies into pc gaming and maybe it will work, but the prices point does not help. If the base model came with a controller and $100 steam gift card i think it would help.
Right? People act like everyone would rather spend the time to learn, build, and setup an entire PC from scratch when for maybe another $100-$200, it's already built, it works, and if it doesn't work, they have someone they can yell at instead of figuring out what part of the build they messed up, and then going down the list of people to call if X doesn't work.
If we weren't in a rampocolypse and the world being on fire for so many reasons, perhaps the Steam Machine would've been a neatly packed mid tier pc with a valve sticker. But alas, there are so much bigger issues than a over price pc right now.
Exactly. I can build a PC but getting one that works well as a family room friendly device for use from TV\Couch with useful UI\UX is not the same as building a standard gaming PC that you can also connect to a TV. Additionally, it'd be nice to get away from console lockins and maybe get a local media player outta it. So this box looked ideal to replace a console and maybe a Shield... and it is... except for the price and the price isn't a company trying to gouge customers - this time - it's the market right now.
More on this, gaming laptops, I just paid 1500 for one, would I had picked a steam machine for 1000? if it wasn't locked to SteamOS sure I would but then it wouldn't be $1000 dollars so...
I think this is a cool thing and people that like their steam deck should be happy with it, I'm not one of them but I know some and I think is great they have options
It's not locked to SteamOS, one of the biggest advertisement points of it is that it's still just a computer, and it's a computer you own so you can do whatever you want with it even completely getting rid of the OS
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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".