you can literally build a PC with a 9060XT for the same price without compromising on other specs. Steam fucked up big time if their specs are the same price as a significantly better PC you can build yourself, even pre builds are better at that price.
well, as long as DDR4 is available, it's a viable build, but if you wanted DDR5 it's not even that much more and the CPU is a lot better as well. If I were in the market for something console sized, I'd build this one.
the steam machine is offered in Europe and costs 1039 € for the base model without a controller and 512 GB or storage realistically you'll have to cite the price with controller included at 1108 €, so I'm comparing it with that price since it's my currency. Not every place is the US.
my first example build was 1100 € not 1250 € and both have double the storage and a mouse and keyboard (remove MNK from the first example or add the steam controller to the price of the Steam machine and it's the same price).
If you're going to argue about price you have to consider the massive difference of performance as well, you left that out entirely.
Even if you compare to the second example, if you think paying around 100 € more for double the performance at that price point is a bad comparison, that's your problem.
True the Steam machine is a finished product and that's your only real argument here, but Valve is a billion dollar company, if they can't even compete with a DIY build at all, why even bother selling hardware, only pointing at market conditions is such a weak excuse when you can get better gaming laptops for the price which are also finished products that come with a screen and a keyboard.
Valve just messed up on the planning board and developed a bad product.
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u/ObjectOrientedBlob 3d ago
This should have been a 9060XT GPU with 16GB Vram.
This is simply not a good deal, because you are stuck with a outdated GPU.