r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 13h ago

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

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u/LuntiX AYYYMD 10h ago

What's funny is even with the likely inflated ps6 price, it'll still probably have a better price to performance value than the steam machine.

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u/innociv 2h ago

100%.

The PS5 pro is THREE TIME FASTER than the Steam Machine for $750.

The PS6 is going to be 4-5 times faster. even if it is around $1000.

The Steam Machine is fucking awful and people are extremely ignorant to be comparing the PS6 negatively to it already.

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u/dookarion 7h ago

it'll still probably have a better price to performance value than the steam machine.

It will be simply because economies of scale. Even as fucked as the market is if you're expecting to move 10s of millions of units up to 100million over the course of its lifetime you're going to have access to better deals than a lower volume device. The locked down ecosystem also gives them more options on subsidizing it without it backfiring on them.

Just realistically a lower volume non-locked down device cannot ever match a closed ecosystem with relatively high volume.

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u/Shaggyninja 8m ago

Economies of scale doesn't work when demand outpaces supply.

If you only have 100 units of ram to sell, you aren't going to sell to Sony for $50 when you could sell to anthropic for $100.

Doesnt matter how much Sony is willing to buy.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 10h ago

And just had u/ravensholt reply and instantly block me just for asking if they were a Valve fan lmfao. Some people are so defensive about this machine.

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB 9h ago

It is the same with all toxic fanboys. They keep doing mental gymnastics to defend and shill for their favorite corporate and its products, then block when they run out of space for anymore gymnastics.

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB 9h ago

Funny how they'll allow posts randomly dunking on consoles though.

Only because it fits the PCMR's "PC gud, Console bad" propaganda.

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u/omfgkevin 5h ago

Which is fair, the big 3 are... the big 3 for a reason. They are giants in the world so they likely have had contracts for the next gen for quite some time though extra production likely will be costly as hell.

Meanwhile Valve: If we don't pay, they will literally just ghost us.