What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.
The Steam Link was pretty much a dumb terminal for VNC. In what way does it need to have “more capable hardware?”
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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
It’s too expensive, it’s just not a good idea for them to have released this. Honestly, they probably should have delayed it for 1-2 years or likely even cancelled it outright.
What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap.
People don’t want to pay $1050 USD for 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.
grue@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
okseby@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I don’t think the target was the same people that would buy a link, the link is for someone that already has a pc. Meanwhile I think the steam machine was meant to compete with the consoles and gather new users into the steam ecosystem and then the price got hammered and took it out of that position.