This really reflects the reverse spiral gaming hardware has seen in recent years. The benchmarks are absolutely laughable for what you could get for the same price just a year ago. Go back 2 years and the gap is even larger. Gamers are being priced out by AI slop generators.
Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
The sad part is that Valve really did price all the parts for pretty much as low as they could go:
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Wtf? The 16g of ram costs almost as much as the gpu. I really hope my ram sticks don’t fail on me anytime soon.
Kaligalis@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The hardware prices seem competitive. But the important note is hinting at the real form factor tax: It doesn’t have the same cost / performance ratio as a normally sized PC using the same hardware.
Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Well it’s little, competing in the little guy bracket.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Bruh the lenovo desktop I got on ebay got more ram than that (32 gb ddr5)
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
When did you get it and for how much?
drmoose@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Op is full of shit my bet. I love collecting these refurbished lenovo corporate gadgets and 32gb ddr5 is extremely unlikely as I’ve never seen one. In general lenovo towers are not really usable for gaming but awesome home servers.
crossdl@leminal.space 8 hours ago
Where’d you find this?
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Looks like Gamers Nexus’ review
Orioniae@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Honestly the fact that were able to push sub-1.1k prices with the mess we have now, and at the same time they so SteamOS can be used on your own steam machine (as in made by you) makes me think they knew of the corner they walked in for a long time.