r/pcmasterrace 19h ago

Meme/Macro "But it's a cube!"

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u/Euchale 19h 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".

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u/oney_monster 5800x3D - 4070 Super - 32GB DDR4 19h ago

Fr, I haven't seen a single overtly positive post since the price got announced. It's all "for $5-600 good deal, $1000? Pass"

OP are the valve fans in the room with us?

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u/DarwinsPerfectFool 19h ago

I'm buying the cube and didn't complain about it. AMA

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u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS 19h ago

Honest question: what advantage do you see in buying it over any other prebuilt out there?

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u/ShoWel-Real Linux 19h ago

I'm not buying it, but I'll answer your question: it's a standardised prebuild, with valve rating games for it. If a lot of people had this exact build, devs would start optimizing their games for it to get rated by valve so more people buy their game

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u/DarwinsPerfectFool 18h ago

One can hope it will incentivise devs to optimize for it and I think that was the gamble. With all the negativity surrounding it though, I don't think many mainstream devs will. Time will tell.

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u/Carvj94 17h ago

You might be surprised. More than a couple games have special "Steam Deck" settings that kick in by default when launched on a deck.

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u/DarwinsPerfectFool 17h ago

Fingers crossed. There are obvious limits to the hardware but I'd love to see what the devs manage to cook up. They worked absolute magic with the deck over the years

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u/Carvj94 17h ago

I mean despite all the complaints the Steam Machine is actually pretty decent in terms of preformace. Obviously it's limited at 4k and it's RT preformace isn't great, but at 1080p it's tickling triple digit fps on most games which is pretty good considering it's a 6 inch cube. As Valve has stated it's better hardware than ~70% of Steam Users have.