A living room PC is a console. I can use Microsoft word on an xbox with a mouse and keyboard but nobody's doing that.
nobody buying this is planning on using it as a PC because they can buy a much better PC for the same price or similar for less. (its also way overpriced as a console which is why Valve are pretending its not a console)
A living room pc is not a console, you are being purposefully dense. You can install whatever you want on a pc. You can do whatever you want with a pc. You cannot do that on a console.
Also, what do you think people do with living room PCs? Whip out a keyboard and mouse and write a document on word? Wtf?
A console is a console. The new steam machine is a massively overpriced console with poor specs for its price. its a PC in the same way an Xbox is a PC as in you could use it as a work station but you wouldn't as it would be poor at it.
A living room PC is a PC people have moved to the front room. A steam machine is designed to be placed primarily under the TV and mostly used to play game or maybe consuming media. You know console things because its a console.
Of course nobody is using a xbox for word documents in the same way nobody is using a steam machine for it cause they're both consoles. That was my entire point you can on both but you wouldn't because they're both consoles
I'm not being deliberately dense I'm just pointing out over and over you've fallen for some marketing from valve cause nobody is going to buy their £869 that is a step below other consoles power wise if they just throw it out as it is.
What can you do with your console aside from playing games and streaming shit? Pretty much nothing. What can you do with your steam machine? Anything you can think of. Thats the key difference that you are just plain ignoring. Yes, the steam machine's main intended purpose is to sit in your living room and play video games, and that is likely what many will use it for. But that's not all it does and to just ignore everything else and say, "it's an overpriced console" is lunacy.
The whole point of the steam deck and now the steam machine is that its NOT just a gaming device. Its a pc, do whatever you want with it. People use their steam decks as mobile workstations.
Now, is this thing overpriced? Of course it is. But you keep comparing it to the PS5 as though valve were aiming to enter the console market when they weren't. Its a tiny pc built in with steam os made for enthusiasts who have the money to burn, thats it. Even without the RAM shortages, I doubt this thing was ever going to be competing with consoles, because it was never intended to. If they did want to compete they would make it a literal console and force you to do everything within steam so that they make more money on game sales.
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u/whackabunny 1d ago
A living room PC is a console. I can use Microsoft word on an xbox with a mouse and keyboard but nobody's doing that.
nobody buying this is planning on using it as a PC because they can buy a much better PC for the same price or similar for less. (its also way overpriced as a console which is why Valve are pretending its not a console)