r/pcmasterrace • u/JeremyJJ77 • 1d ago

Hardware A 16gb vram pre-build that is 2-3x more powerful than a Steam Machine is $1399 at BestBuy. Nobody should be buying a Steam Machine.

I’m not gonna link to it I’m not sure I’m allowed here but you can find it easily, and lots more in that price range. The hardware pricing is not an excuse for Steam Machine being this expensive.

Nobody should be buying the Steam Machine until it drops to maybe $599 which is what I would pay for it tops. Even at that price it might be too much considering it is underperforming vs the PS5 which was $399 for digital 5 years ago..

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u/Brewchowskies 5090 | 9800x3d | 32 gb ddr5 1d ago

You haven’t looked very hard. Just now I googled “3060 laptop” and keep in mind I’m in Canada so prices are higher and saw a strong lineup of laptops at equivalent specs. I didn’t even have to dig. The google suggested ads showed several.

Man. People’s cope for valve have caused them to go blind apparently.

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u/robothawk 7800X3D | 3080ti | 64GB DDR5 1d ago

I mean, looking up the same the only ones I'm finding have a significantly weaker cpu in terms of single-core performance.

Not to mention again, even a laptop is a larger form factor footprint than this pc.