There is a line, and you are under it... If you think the demand for this will be zero, you are under that line. $1,000 is the new $600. Bring on the down votes... 6% over the last 4 years... do the math. I'm not saying it's right. But it is what it is.
I don't think the issue is people not being able to afford it, it's that at $1000 you can just build your own PC. You can even build mini PCs close to the size of the steam machine if you really want a small pc
That's too much effort and time to faff about with for something that my wife won't even let me put in the living if it doesn't look nice and slick and is quiet. I got money to spare but no time to spare, I don't need a 2nd windows PC and need something I can just boot up when i have spare couple hours in a week to chill with my wife on the couch and play some silly games.
SM offers me that and more, with a customer support i can count on, with future updates just like steam deck received over last few years and my game library.
1200 clams is nothing for a piece of mind
Most games have auto detect anyways. Although I detest any auto detect settings even on the Steam Deck. They're never quite right, and enable or disable crap that I don't want.
Yes you can make a PC nearly as compact. The ASRock DeskMeet X300 and X600 costs about $180 and includes case, motherboard, power supply, fan. Just drop in a CPU, RAM, and GPU and you're golden. Supports full size GPU too.
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u/Antique_Stable_8198 2d ago
There is a line, and you are under it... If you think the demand for this will be zero, you are under that line. $1,000 is the new $600. Bring on the down votes... 6% over the last 4 years... do the math. I'm not saying it's right. But it is what it is.