Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open

• PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I believe it. I’m sure there are millions of people using Steam to play Dota or CS2 on stuff like old laptops. But how many of those are willing and able to spend 1000+ for an upgrade?

  Ultimately, stocks may be so low that it doesn’t really matter though.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That means there are a shitload of potential customers, not “I wonder how many people there are that fall in that category but who wouldn’t just buy a much cheaper console instead though.”

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    • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you ignore the price, sure.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What are you on about? There are people that will still want/need to upgrade, and those are the customers. It’s not ignoring price, that is simply the price whether it’s a PC or a steam machine. Something tells me you just want to disagree so ciao.

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• Caducous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And those people cant afford the steam machine. I just don’t see how the steam machine isn’t DOA.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    … There are plenty in that group that can afford a steam machine. Why is everyone acting like that 70% is living on gruel.

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    • Caducous@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If they could then they would have already bought better hardware for less money than the steam machine.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That doesn’t make any sense at all. People can buy whenever they want. And whether it’s a PC or a steam machine this is simply the price. There’s discussion everywhere that building yourself would have a whopping $70, and of course prebuilt will be the same.

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• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How many of those are Steam decks?

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know that Steam Deck is talked about a lot here, but the overall numbers really aren’t that high. And who knows if Steam took that number out for the steam machine analysis.

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