Steambox may cost above 750 $ (Source: random twitter guess)

BlueManifest said:
Some more clarification on price, sounds like they will try to match the price of what it would cost to build yourself but you won't have to build it

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"Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais claimed that the Steam Machine price had not been nailed down internally, but that Valve's aim was to offer a "good deal" in line with equivalently powered PCs.

"I think that if you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that's the general price window that we aim to be at," he said.

"Ideally, we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal, but we're working on refining that as we speak, and right now is just a hard time to have a really good idea of what the price is going to be because there's a lot of different things that are fluctuating."

The problem is you really can't build that PC yourself as it is made primarily with laptop parts. Also, a PC you build yourself can have a pretty large variance in price even if using the same key components. You can spend $100 more on one case vs another, for example.

I think I'm agreeing more with those saying it will be $700 at this point. Maybe Valve will surprise us, but I'm less optimistic.
 
Topher said:
The problem is you really can't build that PC yourself as it is made primarily with laptop parts. Also, a PC you build yourself can have a pretty large variance in price even if using the same key components. You can spend $100 more on one case vs another, for example.
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Not that exact one but they meant one you could build yourself with similar performance

So it should be cheaper than similar PC's since they are going to try to target a build it yourself price
 
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BlueManifest said:
I'm buying it just to replay alyx again on a better headset, that's how good it is, anything past that is a bonus to me
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That's exactly why I was going to get one. I have Alyx sitting around, never converted it to non-VR. I would have bit at $500 as I felt the experience would have further drawn me into VR.
Of course the headset was never going to be that cheap, just wishful thinking on my part. LOL!!!
 
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Sorcerer said:
That's exactly why I was going to get one. I have Alyx sitting around, never converted it to non-VR. I would have bit at $500 as I felt the experience would have further drawn me into VR.
Of course the headset was never going to be that cheap, just wishful thinking on my part. LOL!!!
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If you ever think there's even a slight chance you will get a VR headset one day don't play alyx for the first time with the flat no vr mod it will ruin it,

play it for the first time in VR, and if your sensitive to motion turn on teleportation movement
 
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BlueManifest said:
If you ever think there's even a slight chance you will get a VR headset one day don't play alyx for the first time with the flat mo vr mod it will ruin it,

play it for the first time in VR
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You have read my mind!!! Well played!!! I don't want to ruin the intended experience.
 
Bernkastel said:
Why do you want Valve to downgrade their device? Also, xCloud is the worst streaming service.
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I'm saying I will do a clean install. I just love the shape of it, it will look nice next to the FireTV Cube.

A lot of GFN users are currently buying Mac Mini M4 as their streaming devices, because Nvidia won't bother upgrading their Shield TV.

xCloud gets the job done, other services don't offer Day 1 games plus 1440/60 streaming. $11 month. Beat that price.
 
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Tobimacoss said:
Come on Valve, make it $399 with controller included, and I will buy one. Then put windows on it and use it as a streaming device. :|
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That's definitely not happening unfortunately with everything being so overpriced these days. I think at the lowest it'll be 500.

I'm thinking it'll be

500 dollars for the 512GB version without a controller
600 dollars if you include the controller
600 dollars for the 2TB version without a controller
700 dollars for the 2TB version with a controller

And won't even be surprised if it ends up being more than what I think.
 
Hawk The Slayer said:
That's definitely not happening unfortunately with everything being so overpriced these days. I think at the lowest it'll be 500.

I'm thinking it'll be

500 dollars for the 512GB version without a controller
600 dollars if you include the controller
600 dollars for the 2TB version without a controller
700 dollars for the 2TB version with a controller

And won't even be surprised if it ends up being more than what I think.
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Valve must be on some strong drugs to believe a controller is worth 100$. The most expensive controller I own is the Switch 2 Pro and that is way too expensive for a controller.
 
Darkness_Arises said:
Valve must be on some strong drugs to believe a controller is worth 100$. The most expensive controller I own is the Switch 2 Pro and that is way too expensive for a controller.
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A controller should be worth 30 to 50 dollars max as a fair price. But I think they're going to make the controllers expensive since Nintendo got away with it for the Pro Controller. And Steam is going to hype their controller up to try and get people used to a big price tag just like the Switch 2 Pro.
 
Gotta think Valve is paying attention to all the discourse
Darkness_Arises said:
Valve must be on some strong drugs to believe a controller is worth 100$. The most expensive controller I own is the Switch 2 Pro and that is way too expensive for a controller.
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Not all controllers are equal. Xbox controller is quite a bit less than Switch 2 controller, but it is as bare bones as it gets, thus the price. Considering the hardware they are putting in Steam controller, $100 is about right.
 
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Hawk The Slayer said:
That's definitely not happening unfortunately with everything being so overpriced these days. I think at the lowest it'll be 500.

I'm thinking it'll be

500 dollars for the 512GB version without a controller
600 dollars if you include the controller
600 dollars for the 2TB version without a controller
700 dollars for the 2TB version with a controller

And won't even be surprised if it ends up being more than what I think.
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Your pricing sounds very likely. I wasn't being serious about the $399 price. At least not MSRP. Maybe on Fire sales or refurbished.

Anyways, was just reading something on Nvidia's N1X chips.


ARM64 with DLSS, holy crap, Nvidia could basically take over the handheld PC and Mini PC market. Beating Qualcomm to the punch.

Competition heating up.
 
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Hawk The Slayer said:
That's definitely not happening unfortunately with everything being so overpriced these days. I think at the lowest it'll be 500.

I'm thinking it'll be

500 dollars for the 512GB version without a controller
600 dollars if you include the controller
600 dollars for the 2TB version without a controller
700 dollars for the 2TB version with a controller

And won't even be surprised if it ends up being more than what I think.
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They keep hammering on pricing being competitive to what you can build so it gets really hard to get down to that 500 price point with that in mind.
 
Tobimacoss said:
Your pricing sounds very likely. I wasn't being serious about the $399 price. At least not MSRP. Maybe on Fire sales or refurbished.

Anyways, was just reading something on Nvidia's N1X chips.


ARM64 with DLSS, holy crap, Nvidia could basically take over the handheld PC and Mini PC market. Beating Qualcomm to the punch.

Competition heating up.
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But for what games? I guess they could do a Wine-like layer for ARM, but without a game library in place, I don't see it taking over anything.
 
This entire thread will age like a fine milk in a middle of Sahara, thanks to insane DRAM situation.

Personally, by the time it will be out, I think it will be $899/999 EURO with a controller and with a single SKU. And the few initial shipments will be very close to a paper launch.

If anything, Xbox PC from MS surprisingly has a chance here, but I doubt that current leadership is smart enough to play their cards in a savvy way.
 
Ill Allow It GIF
 
falling into hell said:
No I just thing that not many people will buy it if it doesn't have a competitive price. If you can get a pc with similar specs for a cheaper price or a better pc for the same price people will rather get that.
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The people will buy this instead of the Xbox option.
People who can build a similar spec PC are likely not who is buying this.
I think it's the more casual gamer who wants a taste of Steam and the higher end PC gamer who wants to play there Steam library in another room.
 
I've thought $600-$700 since the start. $500 always seemed way too optimistic to me.

That's a good price point for me. I expect some internet drama if it hits $700, but I wouldn't be bothered.
 
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