Linus tech tips is disappointed that the steam machine won't be priced like a console.
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Topher
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I think I saw some mold in the HDMI port
delirium trigger
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I do think there's a market for a kind of universal prebuilt that delivers similar performance to its console counterparts, even if it costs a bit more.
This is 5 years too late.
If a console player asked me about jumping to pc, I'd never recommend this thing at an 800 dollar price or whatever. Get a prebuilt with a 5060 or 9060 XT.
This is 5 years too late.
If a console player asked me about jumping to pc, I'd never recommend this thing at an 800 dollar price or whatever. Get a prebuilt with a 5060 or 9060 XT.
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Kacho
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That's what I've been saying! It would sell like hotcakes.
Mister Wolf
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And with Full Screen Experience coming to Windows Desktop what if offers has become even less relevant.
BlueManifest
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And they would lose a lot of money on each one sold, I think they want this to be low volume on purpose because that's all they are able to produce as their size company
They can't order millions of parts like Microsoft or Sony Nintendo
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Kacho
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lifa-cobex
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It would make far more sense for it to be.
I think Valve takes a big part of the games sold revenue on Steam.
Even at a loss from pricing it lower than cost to manufacture or on par. You make the revenue back from the store purchases.
As most Steam users know. That library soon fills.
BlueManifest
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Steam is already the most used gaming platform, they aren't in a hurry to take a big loss on hardware
They have no reason to sell it for a loss but just as a option in the already many pc options
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Kacho
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Whatever they do they need to sell it for as cheap as possible or they risk sitting on a mountain of stock. $300 might be unrealistic but those specs aren't worth much more than that.
BlueManifest
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They aren't making a mountain of stock so that's not a problem
The frame for example is only forecast to manufacture 500k
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Kacho
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Well if they aren't careful it'll be Steam Link all over again and I look forward to buying one for a couple bucks in a clearance sale.
BlueManifest
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Steam link became useless after they released the app it was replaced
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Kacho
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They will still have clear stock they can't sell.
TrebleShot
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No one has answered the question does it do excellent ray tracing and wipe the ass of the xbox and PS5 combined?
Danjin44
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I could be wrong but from I heard its weaker than base PS5.......so chance are no.
Mister Wolf
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Its RDNA 3 with a better CPU so it should have better raytracing performance.
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ResilientBanana
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He hit them rage bait bullet points rather well. Enjoy the clicks
BlueManifest
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It's not weaker than ps5, someone built a pc and got it as close to the steam machine as they could and it was a little stronger than ps5
lastmessiah
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Plus you can tweak settings in pc games to get the performance profile you desire. But Gaf will go on making dumb assertions regardless. A lot of you guys have no idea what you're talking about, it's hilarious.
Clear
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Compare it to the prices of NUC-style mini PC's. Then remember that its guts isn't a mass-produced APU, its a frankensteined hybrid that requires 8gb of GDDR6 so your already way above the budget of a mid-tier part of that class. Also due to this is draws more power and requires more cooling.
One would also assume that if its being sold as a quasi-console, it will include a controller which will further bump up the price.
This is absolutely not a $300 box.
LordOfChaos
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It's a weird place to be with subsidizing what is in the end still an open PC platform, if you subsidize open PC hardware where you can install another OS and the value becomes too good, there would probably be hundreds of thousands of sales to people that never intend to buy a game on steam on there, at least. It's not really a console model where it's all locked down and you can reliably make the money back on taking a fraction of game sales later.