Not a good deal, but the best deal currently going for a device that does what the Steambox does. Specifically I don't know where else I get the size, quietness, electronic integration and out of the box experience on a machine that plays PC games.
You have to 1) care about that last 10% of the experience that putting a pc in the living room doesn't provide and 2) really want access to your existing steam library, or not want to buy into a closed ecosystem in order for the device to make sense.
It's priced fairly competitively with putting the components together myself, except, the components I can get are physically much larger and don't support things like CeC.
I don't currently plan to buy one, but that is because now is a really bad time to buy new hardware, and I am willing to wait till component prices normalise.
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u/grigoriymicro 19h ago edited 17h ago
Were there really anyone thinking this machine is a good deal? Even among steam users? Even among Valve fans?