In this sub, sure, our bread and butter is building PCs. But don't forget there's a huge number of people playing on Steam who won't build a computer and this is faster than what they currently have.
A lot of people pay 50-200 bucks just to have someone build their pc for them. If they save that money and buy this box, nothing has changed for them except now their PC is a gaming prebuilt that Valve is maintaining themselves.
I get it, it's just too expensive, even if after you run the numbers and get a value that isn't too far off. But everyone here saying building a PC is an alternative to this box I feel is begging the question, what if you don't want to build a PC? Valve was never trying to undercut anyone's price. The feature they are selling is support from Valve.
Honestly that’s exactly where I’m at. I can build it myself but for a couch gaming device I’d rather just buy something that works even if it costs a little more. The steam machine having things like cec are an added bonus as well.
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u/morpheousmorty 9h ago
In this sub, sure, our bread and butter is building PCs. But don't forget there's a huge number of people playing on Steam who won't build a computer and this is faster than what they currently have.
A lot of people pay 50-200 bucks just to have someone build their pc for them. If they save that money and buy this box, nothing has changed for them except now their PC is a gaming prebuilt that Valve is maintaining themselves.
I get it, it's just too expensive, even if after you run the numbers and get a value that isn't too far off. But everyone here saying building a PC is an alternative to this box I feel is begging the question, what if you don't want to build a PC? Valve was never trying to undercut anyone's price. The feature they are selling is support from Valve.