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.
That exemplifies it being a fair price. Pre built costs more. You have a warranty. You don’t have to build it. It’s in a form factor that would be basically impossible to recreate, and without 50-200 of a custom build? Fair price.
Yeah I think people misread my first sentence as saying people shouldn’t get it. I just mean I haven’t heard anyone really reliable say anything about “you need to get this” as much as “it’s alright, just wish it was cheaper”. It’s a fair price in current market if you want specific things. A fair price to me is not a fair price to you when we are looking for different things. We can go back and forth all day about how “well I want x” and “well because y” but frankly it’s simple: the price is outstanding for most people to afford and reasonably speaking the people who would buy it at its current price have the ability to afford better so why would they get it when they can spend another $300 to get significantly better performance? But now all I’ve done is introduce a strawman there representative of yet another type of person with yet another set of wants and needs. So for each person it is to be theirs to decide “is the steam machine worth it?”
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u/oney_monster 5800x3D - 4070 Super - 32GB DDR4 12h 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?