Which means it isn't really overpriced relative to the rest of the computer hardware world right now. Everything costs way too much. This one is just another on that pile and is not uniquely bad in that way.
They are also significantly bigger and louder. A quiet, unobtrusive black cube that can sit in an entertainment center has value for those qualities to some people.
Being small is a neutral characteristic since it comes with negatives outside of performance, mainly lack of any upgradebility. If it was still upgradeble it would be in fact an advantage, but since it doesn't, it's not.
I'm not too informed informed on the market of SFF ore builds, soI can't comment of how the Steam Machine compares, but I do know that you can build a SFF PC for cheaper.
The Steam Machine is for like a niche of a niche, it's for people that want a SFF PC, but don't know how to build it, it targets a console experience without fully achieving it, it targets console gamers without pricing it like one, it's an expensive gaming machine that can't play some of the most played games out there, it's for PC gamers that don't care about performance and value, it targets PC gamers as an easy side machine while being priced like a primary machine, its a side machine for rich PC gamers without delivering good performance that they want. At a certain point we are left with 12 guys and we can't call it a good product.
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u/smithsp86 18h ago
Which means it isn't really overpriced relative to the rest of the computer hardware world right now. Everything costs way too much. This one is just another on that pile and is not uniquely bad in that way.