I think the severity of this issue will be determined by its frequency, but the comparison to the red ring of death is just another piece of poor publicity this thing has been receiving since its price and performance reveals.
If 1/1000 systems are DOA and they imported 40k in the US, that means 40 systems should be DOA.
0.1% of systems having minor issues would be a pretty common occurrence in consumer electronics.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So one user had a hardware or possibly software issue.
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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Yeah all I see here is a starved news cycle.
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.