Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cool, that looks like a beefy system for that price, glad to see options, but:
- It doesn’t list sizes, mini ITX is usually significantly larger than the Steam Machine.
- Are they shipping it with SteamOS and will they support it? The page seems to imply it’s coming bare and pointing you to a tutorial on how to install it yourself and marking that as a positive.
- Will it have CEC? I see no mention of it anywhere.
- Will it support low power standby and fast resume? Especially during games? I know that’s mostly a software thing, but are they making sure it’s supported here?
- Can it be woken from that state with a controller?
- Does it have an internal steam controller antenna?
- Or a wifi one?
- Or a Bluetooth one?
Looks like a good build considering current pricing, but realistically it’s missing a bunch of the core features of the Steam Machine that seems to fly over people’s heads
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tech people love to forget the average level of tech literacy in the world.
Every time Nintendo and Switch comes up on Lemmy you see the flood of haters who cant wrap their heads around the idea that parents will pay extra for their kids shit to “just work” and overpay for AAA Nintendo titles that are complete and have no microtransactions.
The steam machine is for people who remember pc gaming fondly but cant be bothered building a rig or dealing with specs on prebuilts.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 week ago
Nintendo games have no microtransactions? What in the everloving shit are you talking about? They have some of the most predatory microtransactions i have erver seen. Makio kart 8 teases you with tracks and characters you don’t own every time you play. They know for damn sure that children don’t see the little dlc on the top or know what it means. Same with smash brothers. And these are just the only games i ever bought my nephew used, because fuck them.