Yeah all I see here is a starved news cycle.
Comment on Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So one user had a hardware or possibly software issue.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
Anything to make a newcomer to the market look bad
Grimy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kind of early to call it a nothing burger when the thing isn’t out yet. One user isn’t a lot if it was currently being sold but I imagine the number of steam machines that have gone out isn’t very high yet. That being said, the red ring of death affected something like 30% of units, I doubt the number of steam machine affected is anywhere close to that.
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Not a lot of valuable information from this article.
Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless you’re worried that Steam Machine actually going to be a viable competitor to Xbox and Sony now that they’ve both also raised prices and dropped physical distribution. They lost two more big draws to their ecosystems and neither Sony or Microsoft have nearly as good a reputation for managing online stores.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On that note, it’s possible this is just one of the competitors deliberately breaking one. Not that a failed system isn’t plausible, but it’s just as plausible that one of valve’s competitors is trying to create FUD.
Time will tell I guess, but it reminds me of all the complaints about the radeon 5700 XT when all I saw was instability caused by my mobo thinking it could just enable PCIe (x+1) when it was only engineered for PCIe x (forget if it was 3 and 4 or 4 and 5), and it worked great after I updated the bios so it stopped doing that. It was hard to tell what complaints were legitimate and I was just lucky to avoid vs what was being amplified because AMD was getting back in the competition and nvidia didn’t like that.