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Steam Machine

Your games on the big screen

store.steampowered.com

 

[Guilty_AI]

Its an xbox

 

[PauloRoberto]

Can I put another operating system and do 'whatever' i want? It's a PC (a mini pc, by the way... and already has some older specs...)

 

[Trunx81]

A failure

(Stealth "let's see if I'm going to eat crows in a few years" post)

 

[SnapShot]

Half Life 3

 

[TintoConCasera]

They say it's a PC:

edit source: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

 

[Sethbacca]

Is there a price estimate anywhere?

 

[Zathalus]

It's a PC. Pretty obvious.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

They say it's a PC:

Take it this won't be subsidised then.

 

[Senua]

They say it's a PC:

 

[PlayStaytion]

The GameCube Shadow maybe?

 

[yogaflame]

That is my same question. Are we going to welcome it to the console wars or it is still part of the PC category?

 

[Zathalus]

Take it this won't be subsidised then.

Well the exact same goes for the Steam Deck. You can do with that what you want as well.

 

[Alexios]

They literally say it's a PC in the unveil video. Just like the Deck. People really need to stop calling anything smaller than ENIAC a console.

 

[GHG]

It's a PC and they are literally marketing it as a PC.

How is this even a question?

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

The amount of people here that won't change definitions of words for MS Corp current marketing is frankly disgusting.

 

[lastmessiah]

It's a PC and they are literally marketing it as a PC.

How is this even a question?

Lot of smooth brains on GAF.

 

[adamsapple]

A hybrid to what ?

They're advertising it as a PC.

Just because y'all can make threads, doesn't mean you always need to

 

[DanielG165]

It's a PC, just like the Steam Deck is a PC. It may be a more simplified version of a PC, but it's still very much under that umbrella.

 

[Mister Wolf]

A PC made for console players.

 

[Esppiral]

The poll is missing "an Xbox"

 

[Holammer]

A console form factor PC.
That's what I've been calling it forever.

 

[Zacfoldor]

It's funny, because I know this is a thing but it's always been very silly to me. You call things console and PCs.

They are both computers.

Console vs PC is a social construct.

All video games are computer games.

 

[pudel]

Raspberry pi 2!

 

[Rentahamster]

Xbox

 

[Dacvak]

Its an xbox

I was really hoping that would be an option on the poll

 

[Impotaku]

rental box

 

[twilo99]

100% console

 

[MisterXDTV]

A mini-PC is still a PC

 

[twilo99]

It's funny, because I know this is a thing but it's always been very silly to me. You call things console and PCs.

They are both computers.

Console vs PC is a social construct.

All video games are computer games.

GAF despised logic so gtfo

 

[Astray]

Keep in mind that in a similar vein to what Xbox has to do in order to keep backcompat active, Valve has to push the device as a PC.

Otherwise they have to renegotiate all their licensing terms with all publishers and devs.

100% console

They literally call it a PC though lmao.

 

[Judge Magister]

Valve's Laptop ITX build...

 

[MisterXDTV]

It's funny, because I know this is a thing but it's always been very silly to me. You call things console and PCs.

They are both computers.

Console vs PC is a social construct.

All video games are computer games.

Consoles have software exclusively made for them, PC software has to run on a million different configurations at the same time

Completely different scenarios

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Take it this won't be subsidised then.

Eh I don't know about that. This isn't any different then then Steam Deck in that respect and isn't the Steam Deck subsidized?

Steam Deck can also take other OS and they've talked about it since Day 1.

 

[PeteBull]

A pc but with additional flaws of 0 upgradeability, aka more of a low end laptop than actual proper desktop.

 

[Magic Carpet]

It's a PC laptop in cube form.

 

[Jigsaah]

I categorize it as unappealing. That VR headset though...kinda interested in seeing new tech in that space as they have a long way to go

 

[GHG]

100% console

100% incorrect.

 

[twilo99]

They literally call it a PC though lmao.

people call it an Xbox as well

 

[tr1p1ex]

Eh I don't know about that. This isn't any different then then Steam Deck in that respect and isn't the Steam Deck subsidized?

Steam Deck can also take other OS and they've talked about it since Day 1.

but SD wasn't a cheap/desirable way to get a general pc afaik. If this is subsidized it would be.

 

[Kvally]

It's a PlayStation!

 

[Guilty_AI]

Consoles have software exclusively made for them, PC software has to run on a million different configurations at the same time

Completely different scenarios

No one making PC games is developing for each and every config. When talking about specific configurations, they mostly have to deal with Vulkan/Direct3D. Everything else more or less comes down to good coding habits, aka don't do any hardcoding for things like memory pool values. It really is not that different from developing for a console these days.

 

[GHG]

A pc but with additional flaws of 0 upgradeability, aka more of a low end laptop than actual proper desktop.

Yep, and this is what makes me completely uninterested in devices like this.

I can tolerate it with the deck becuase it's portable, but having both my portable and stand alone PC devices being unupgradeable? No chance.

 

[Fbh]

It's obviously the first strand type hardware.

 

[Killer8]

A PC which plays games with none of the headaches of PC gaming.

 

[pudel]

It's a PC laptop in cube form.

its more like a laptop...yep....like a meh one!

 

[Astray]

people call it an Xbox as well

Well Microsoft is calling it an Xbox at some point, that's for sure.

 

[IDKFA]

Valve called it a PC in their video.

It's a PC.

 

[GHG]

Well Microsoft is calling it an Xbox at some point, that's for sure.

Which is funny because it won't have access to the windows store or gamepass.

The desperation from them stinks.

 

[deriks]

The ad says it's a PC, so maybe it is an attack helicopter