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Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999

Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

The steam machine is pretty close to prebuilt costs. Its a bad deal because building a PC right now is just a bad deal. Matching the form factor is the biggest cost destroyer. If you want a small efficient gaming PC you dont get much better than the steam machine but if you’ve got enough space for a big 9060 XT then you arent competing vs the steam machine. Granted this is amazing advertising and got to hand it to them. But steam machine isnt 1039 euro is it wouldnt it be more like 900 euro.

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TheMightyCat@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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Steam machine is 1039 euro

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- Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thats cooked, thats the same as USD
  
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  - Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You have to take into account the price is always shown with VAT included in the EU, not in the US.
    
    The price without VAT in France would be €865,83.
    
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    Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I have a 15% vat in my country so I guess im just not used to the US not having a vat. Stupid US stop excluding tax from your prices its insanity
    
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grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Building a PC isn’t that bad. $1000 is plenty for a competent 1080p machine, especially with DLSS or FSR or even just Lossless Scaling involved.

If you don’t care about playing the latest and greatest, you can come in around 500 if you can find some decent secondhand deals. 3060’s can be had for around 200 used and they’ll play pretty much anything indie just fine and can probably even handle modern demanding titles with aggressive DLSS and turning features down or off. You can go cheaper with a 2060 super for about 50 less or get a 4060 for about 50 more. Team red will probably be a little cheaper overall, although FSR isn’t quite as good as DLSS at squeezing every last frame out of the chip.

If you’ll only be playing stuff like Stardew, Crosscode, etc - and there’s a ton of great games like that - then you don’t even need a discrete GPU at all.

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