Texture quality on PS5 is still top tier in most games because of the IOcomplex and the 10-12GBs for VRAM of 16GBs. Texturing plays such a big part in game visuals, and Spiderman 2 being a proper current gen game and looking like that with that performance on the Steam Machine is a much better test for the box IMO.
It won't have official support as they sell the same games and compete with one another.
It's still going to be a lot more convenient than a typical PC.
LOL. It won't cost $299. Not even close.
PC shills (Linus, Dave 2D, etc.) have already started carrying water for it, making excuses for the pricing well in advance of launch: "It will be priced like a PC, duh!". Linus for example compared this crappy hardware in price to PS5 pro, when it is barely PS5 level. Expect 700$ atleast for the 2 TB model.
Well I'm base it on the idea the device will be successful coming from smart people. More than $329/£329 and the perception of the price makes the device look rubbish coming 5years after the PS5 and being inferior for AAA games, half the storage and lack of out the box support for the most played multiplayer GaaS.
That's a 1080p machine for modern AAA games. 1440p for less demanding and older stuff.
You started trying to describe a hybrid and ended up describing a PC with a fancy case. You start making everything user upgradable by default and supported and you lose any semblance of the console like benefits you can provide to the experience.
Yes, a number of games indeed require that 12GB of VRAM, but for most games 8GB does do the job. I think they should have gone with the 16GB 7600 XT instead of the 7600m they have now, but I guess they really wanted to hit as low as price as possible. For a lot of titles the experience will be very similar, but all the Sony 1st party games will be better on the PS5, as well as a lot of the newer AAA releases.
I agree about the 1080p machine thing and I think thats just fine in most cases for most casual gamers
I believe if its priced right and they market the shit out of it, it will find its place among the budget consious, low income house holds it could tempt people away from a switch or a series S...potentially. in other cases it could prove to be a popular secondary console for people who may be accessing steam for the first time. it has potential. I could see it doing well in markets like brazil, latin america and the carribean. just tell them it plays king of fighters and street fighter and costs less than an xbox or a PS5 and they will gobble it up. just for the fighting games available on it. steams library and a low price combined with their regular sales, would really sell well in markets outside the US and EU if they market it and price it right.
They just need to show off the fact that it plays games like this and its cheaper than a series S or a switch, and it even plays xbox and a few PS games (even if not as well as a series X or PS5, but it wont matter, because its cheaper) :
Franchise - the King of Fighters
store.steampowered.com
Hybrids give up a bit on either side. Part of the reason the console or Steam Deck experience is simple and flows well is that the HW is fixed and the UI, OS, and drivers can be optimised.
its already worse than a 5 y.o console with hinted price of entry level pc, still a joke without ps6 even entering the picture
Do they?
Highly unlikely when it was called trilinear filtering by even Carmack back in the day in Quake3 and that released in 1999 IIRC, long after DOS/Win 3.0/3.1 were long gone and we were still in the infancy of 3D accelerators on PC with most not even having full h/w T&L with a zbuffer.
To be fair, laptop hardware generally is WAY WAY noisier running at full load/max performance ~130W+ and generally fails quicker than desktop hardware. Plus a laptop would occupy much more space than a mini-PC.
But you are playing on hardware unconstrained by the realities of console design and usually playing the highest AAA games from console some years later where by that time the consoles are effectively 4year old from design and made on a strict budget, unlike a entry level GPU that costs 2/3rds the price of the console.
