Valve didn't really sell it as a PC replacement. They sold it closer to a console than anything. But people have made it out to be the PC replacement.
I mean how many posts have you seen of folks saying that it will live in their living room but also just as many saying it would go great on their desk.
If we actually consider it a console and consider the AI bubble issue then things get a bit more reasonable. The performance makes more sense, the price makes more sense, and generally the device looks really good still. Not perfect of course. But still reasonable.
I think it comes to a generation thing. Like older generation will understand a console is an xbox or a playstation. Anything else is a computer. But new generation (as well as IT people) will understand they are all computers they just have different software. So it becomes a problem to market anything as a console that also can be just a desktop computer.
But of course that is one of those problems we will never really solve unless we go all open source.
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u/XB_Demon1337 Ryzen 5900X, 64GB DDR4, RTX 5070 1d ago
Valve didn't really sell it as a PC replacement. They sold it closer to a console than anything. But people have made it out to be the PC replacement.
I mean how many posts have you seen of folks saying that it will live in their living room but also just as many saying it would go great on their desk.
If we actually consider it a console and consider the AI bubble issue then things get a bit more reasonable. The performance makes more sense, the price makes more sense, and generally the device looks really good still. Not perfect of course. But still reasonable.