It will most likely sell out constantly for the next year, they will be fine.
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tomkatt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Rough timing. My entire gaming PC cost less than this and is much more powerful, judging by the specs. But I built it out with 32 GB RAM and a few terrabytes of SSDs and NVMe before the current silicon panic, and just upgraded the GPU last year before the prices increased.
I don’t see how there was any way of winning for Valve on this with the current market. It’s not worth the cost, but there’s also likely no way they could make it cheaper.
snooggums@piefed.world 7 hours ago
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yep, easily. Valve hardware isn’t subsidized by the manufacturer like traditional consoles, so they make money even if not a whole lot of them are sold.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Apparently they were originally intending for it to be around the $750-800 range for the base model.
You do also have to factor in that it’s about a 6 inch cube, though, so it’s no surprise that the specs are underpowered.
Serinus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
How long ago did you buy that? Because things have changed.
snoons@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
There is a way to make it cheaper, but it involves multiple homicide so I don’t think it’s going to happen.
lostepisodesfoundagain@kbin.earth 7 hours ago
yeah I'm fine with my DDR 4 32 gig laptop. I bought it before I became homeless and the thing is good for what I need.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’m still on 32 GB DDR4 as well, running a Ryzen 5600x and RX 9070 GPU. I was planning to potentially upgrade to a new mobo/CPU/RAM this year or next year, but I just have no reason to upgrade now, between the prices and the fact that I’ve had no issues even with recent UE5 games like Expedition 33 at 1440p/UW and in some cases up to 4k resolutions for slightly older stuff. It runs everything just fine for my purposes, and the whole system is really power efficient for the performance, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it hit above 350w total power.
Gamersnexus shows a comparison with the Steam Machine getting 93 fps on Resident Evil 4 remake at 1080p with “priorize graphics” setting, while my GPU (Sapphire Pulse 9070) hits 275 fps on the same settings. Can’t complain.
femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Just my GPU cost that much 3-4 years ago, it’s overkill now but I got it for VR and sold my VR stuff after 2 years. That for an entire system could work depending on performance. I’m betting new consoles would be around the same price if they were released this year.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I got lucky I think. Bought two Sapphire Pulse RX 9070s last year for myself and my wife’s rig, close to or below MSRP. Mine was $600, wife’s was $540. We had 6700XTs previously, only reason we upgraded was because I was having issues with performance on E33. We plan to pick up Solasta II when it drops which is also UE5, and had some existing games with a bit of performance drop (like 40k: Rogue Trader) so decided the upgrade was warranted.
We’re both gaming on Linux, so the performance and stability with AMD was preferred, no question.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 31 minutes ago
For those of us with already existing hardware, but Gamer’sNexus showed that a system built today with comparable specs costs about the same.
If you’re building a system today you’re staring down the exact same Sam Altman shaped wall that Valve is.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
I literally spec’d out a much more powerful system in another comment here for around $950.
It’s only equivalent if you absolutely need a micro/mini PC.