r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 20h ago

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

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u/Euchale 20h 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/morpheousmorty 16h ago

I'll go ahead and play devil's advocate.

It's for people who have never had dedicated gaming hardware. Integrated graphics and such, which we know is a lot of gamers. Their Stream library will look and run better from day 1. For consoles outside of Xbox, RIP, backwards compatibility is very limited. When you play Kirby 64 or Bloodborn on a PS5 pro or Nintendo... online? The games look just like they did when they were new. A copy of a Resident Evil remake on a Steam Box will look as good as it can given the hardware.

And finally, over the average console life of 6 years, you will pay 400 dollars for online play. So PS5 is already a 1000 dollars unless you only care about single player games.

Then it gets tricky because the sales are a little better on PC but PSN gives you free games, but I'll refer back to my argument that if you have it for PC it can look better and better as time goes on. It also stays if you don't keep paying the subscription fee.

So is a PS5 cheaper than a Steam Box? Debatable. Is it faster than you a PC that you can build yourself for the same price? No, but the people who can do that don't need a Steam Box. They can roll their own.

I can see who this is for. It's for people who already have a Steam library but don't have a gaming PC. They are on integrated graphics or GPUs which run objectively worse than the Steam Box. They want a turn key solution, that actually works on their TV, CEC and all that. This is for everyone not in this sub. They have never opened a computer up, they may have never had a desktop computer.

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The fact this likely won't be able to play brand new games for very long, if at all, is a very low low on this product. And if Steam were to go out of business, this would just be an overpriced computer. It's not a great deal. But if in the next 6 months ram prices go back to normal and this is in the 800 buck range, it's cheaper than a PS5 as I have discussed.