Also, I am pretty sure the steam machine is smaller than I was able to achieve in my efforts to make a tiny gaming PC for the living room. That kind of thing can only be done at great effort.
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tal@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
I mean, you will almost certainly be able to build machines that outperform the Steam Machine in bang-for-buck if Valve isn’t subsidizing it, which they said that they won’t. If not at release, then a few years in.
But that’s not gonna be what the Steam Machine is for — you could always build a DIY gaming PC, unlike with consoles. It’s an open platform. What Valve is gonna do is be aiming for is going to be ease of use, the “you plug it into your TV, plug it into power, turn on gamepad, play games that target Steam Machine 2” thing. That’s where consoles have been able to pick up users that haven’t done the PC.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I mostly wanna know how much power the steam machine will need. I’ve got to invert it from 12v DC.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Also the real goal with it, like with the Deck, is to set a standard for what hardware games should run well on for the next several years, and to give PC manufacturer a target for what to match or improve on.