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

• potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not price gouging

  They, a supplier that buys in bulk is charging a higher premium for storage than you’d pay if you bough the 512gb model and a 2tb ssd on your own. So yes, it kinda is price gouging.

  I didn’t ask if you’ve seen SSD prices

  You literally said “I don’t know if you’ve seen prices recently” and my complaint was about the device price, while also specifically mentioning the price premium for the 2TB model. So yeah, you kinda did ask.

  no benchmark has it losing against a zen+ CPU that runs a GHz slower

  My bad, it didn’t lose to a 2600, it matched it in decompression tests. Source, if you want to confirm it. The most it can do is get close to the 3600, which was released in 2019. If that’s not disappointing, I don’t know what is.

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  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re not buying at the prices your local hardware store bought them at though, they’re buying at the future price of hardware when it actually gets built for them. It’s not price gouging.

    I talked about SSD prices in an entirely separate sentence, it doesn’t make any contextual sense for you to lump it into the previous statement.

    The literal next sentence he says is “but blender put it near the 5600x”. You’re comparing it’s worst performing tasks to general performance.

    You are being melodramatic.

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    • potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re not buying at the prices your local hardware store bought them at though, they’re buying at the future price of hardware when it actually gets built for them. It’s not price gouging.

      That’s really not how pricing works, but ok.

      The literal next sentence he says is “but blender put it near the 5600x”. You’re comparing it’s worst performing tasks to general performance.

      It’s supposedly a pc, not just a console. There’s nothing unfair about the comparison

      You are being melodramatic.

      You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

      If you like to fanboy all over Valve so much then go ahead and buy it. Have fun. We’ve literally alredy seen how this plays out. Did you already forget about the og steam machine?

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      • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I fear your understanding of context is matched by your understanding of economics if you think your first two claims are true. It’s a PC at a PC price, and your unfamiliarity with the market doesn’t change that.

        Melodramatic means exactly what I think it means - I’m saying you’re being overemotional to make a drama out of a non-issue, as backed up by your projective accusations - I don’t want one, I’m not it’s target audience. You, on the other hand, are here raging that it… Costs a normal price for a computer of its specs. It’s obvious this isn’t a real issue, you’re just reactively hating on Valve.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s not at all what price gouging is

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