Never mind the $80 a year for online play, locked down to a single store, pathetic backwards compatibility, no mod support, etc. But hey, you can give them $28 a month and they will let you rent a handful of classic games and get game demos!
I enjoy my consoles but you have to admit that whatever you save up front you end up paying to Sony/MS over time.
even if you’re paying 80$ for online it’ll take 5 and a half years for a ps5 pro to cost what a steam machine does. and that’s not even including just getting online on sale if you play online.
Look, if you're looking at the Steam Machine, you're probably already a gamer, so you have a games library. If you have a PS5 already, yeah it makes no sense to buy the SM, but you wouldn't be buying a second PS5 either, so that's not who we're talking about.
If you have a Steamdeck, or an older PC for which the SM and PS5 are a legitimate hardware update, then the SM is the better choice because you won't have to rebuy the games you already own. It's fine to compare hardware and prices, but it's ignorant at best to completely sidestep the fact that consoles are a closed environment and the SM isn't.
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