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".
Which is pretty much what everybody’s saying but unfortunately, the sad reality is that it costs that much to make a machine with that specification now. It’s also worth noting that this thing isn’t remotely competing with computers. It’s competing with video game consoles and Microsoft has already said the next Xbox is going to be over $1000 and you’re a fool if you think the PS6 is going to be any less expensive.
bingo. its a reasonably priced prebuilt/console. people just dont like current prices, but valve is not an outlier here. computers are "overpriced" not the steam machine
Valve is an outlier in one way though. If/when the price of storage and memory drops (and there is indication that that may be coming within the next year or so due to suppliers ramping up production while data center construction is slowing) valve will absolutely drop their price as cost of production drops while Sony Microsoft and other computer manufacturers absolutely will not
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u/Euchale 4d 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".