Comment on Steam machine prices are live
okseby@lemmy.zip 7 hours agoI 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.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Sure, I didn’t mean that it’s a standalone console.
However, at $1050 USD, there’s many people who won’t be buying this standalone console either.
It would have made more sense to release both at the same time, that way people who are turned off by the $1050 USD (or more) price tag would at least have something they could buy from Valve instead.
Hell, I’d buy a new Steam Link that supports H265 and isn’t capped to 1080p at 60 FPS.