Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months agoDefinitely not less than half the price. The build I see linked in this thread comes in around $950 with as close to equivalent specs as possible. The machines people on YouTube were building when the specs were announced, before the RAM and SSD prices spiked, were coming in a little under $700 at the time.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just checked my local marketplaces, and it is easily less than half the price. Of course, the parts are second hand, because they’re not even sold new anymore.
Alternatively, you can also build a PC smaller than the Steam Machine, running a Ryzen 7 8700G. It’ll be even cheaper, but also considerably weaker on the GPU side.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
“If you hunt stuff down, buy used, and get good deals, you can do it for cheaper.”
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think you’re making an honest comparison if you’re doing it with used parts. You can get lots of things cheaper used.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a fair point, but how else am I supposed to buy parts that are out of official distribution? It’s not my fault the Steam Machine is using ancient hardware.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You would price out the closest equivalent in price and performance, if you wanted to make an honest comparison, and plenty of people have specced out builds like that, with the differences between the two noted. And for as “ancient” as the tech in the Steam Machine is, it’s still better than what 70% of Steam users are running. Considering that the most popular games by a wide margin on any modern platform right now are all 10+ years old, that’s not much of a surprise.