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Rough timing. My entire gaming PC cost less than this and is much more powerful, judging by the specs. But I built it out with 32 GB RAM and a few terrabytes of SSDs and NVMe before the current silicon panic, and just upgraded the GPU last year before the prices increased.
I don’t see how there was any way of winning for Valve on this with the current market. It’s not worth the cost, but there’s also likely no way they could make it cheaper.
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 1 hour ago
I imagine most of the more tech savvy people on Lemmy would scoff at this and say “Might as well build a PC” (me included, which I already did), but this is aimed at the consumers who do not have that skill set and are willing to pay that price point for a Steam gaming system /shrug
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I wonder how many people there are that fall in that category but who wouldn’t just buy a much cheaper console instead.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
I have friends who only have consoles. This is who I think should be looking at this. People like me who wanted a second PC for the living room may pass on this because of the price, though. I don’t need a second PC that bad. But for my people with no PC, no monitors, no keyboards, this is pretty decent. Not to mention the it’s an alright deal when pricing out a build yourself.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
An existing PC game library, better pricing and flexibility for PC games, wider and more robust controller support …
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 1 hour ago
Honestly that makes me like Steam even more. Any company that is willing to put up that much money to serve a niche market earns my respect. Sure they’re doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers but it’s still serving a subset of their customers like few companies do these days.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 59 minutes ago
I mean, speaking for myself, I already bought the consoles back in 2020. I bought a Steam Deck to access non-console games.
This does what the Steam Deck does only moreso.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 hour ago
I wanted the tiny box format for playing my steam library on the TV without needing to run a cable from the PC. Wasn’t sure I could build one this small so I waited to see how much this was.
Around $800 for the 2TB model was my hope when it was announced. Stupid AI data centers screwing over memory prices.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
I think $800 for 2 TB was still a bit overoptimistic, but I suppose we’ll never really know.
someguy3@lemmy.world 48 minutes ago
With today’s prices how much cheaper would you get building similar yourself?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
I heard from a trusted colleague that the difference is about $70, but you also get a possible steam controller discount + a sweet-ass form factor.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There are things this does that would be very difficult to achieve in a custom build. It’s very compact and quiet and has very good driver support without any tinkering. It’s a machine you hook up to your living room TV and for that it works very well, including CEC support which is not standard on PC hardware. The price is of course hard to swallow and performance isn’t great but i think this thing will definitely sell all the units they can possibly make.