Comment on My steam machine arrived!

• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, the fact that they are using bespoke parts, but still barely come in above the independent build cost tells me that they aren’t raking billions off of this. I’m fine with the price. Expensive, yes, but so is everything else.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is ’overpriced’ compared to a desktop in the same way laptops are ’overpriced’ compared to desktops. Making things smaller increases cost, especially when there is a lot of heat dissipation needed.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is this overprice compared to laptop I seriation still valid with the current AI driven price peak?

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      • locahosr443@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes because the desktop equivalent cost machine would be faster, no cpu locked at 30w or cut down gpu. Just like with a laptop.

        It is expensive for a pretty low end machine but also so is everything now. And it does look nice and comes with a more console like experience out the box.

        No one should be buying this thing based on performance alone, but it still ticks many other boxes

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah the real money is on the backend when people can now impulse buy games from their couch

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  • SystemDisc@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My main issue with it is that’s it’s not upgradable and does not support eGPUs.

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    • mereo@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s console like pc like the Playstation for the average gamer that just want to connect and play.

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      • SystemDisc@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, but it’s also marketed as also just a PC. Yet, it cannot be upgraded and you cannot use an eGPU. This makes it a terrible choice for PC gamers.

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Something can be overpriced and the company can still be losing money on it. How much profit the company making it makes is entirely irrelevant to the usability for the end consumer.

  If they made a bunch of poor choices that made the cost of the product go up that doesn’t change the fact that I could’ve gotten more for my money from a better designed product. Like they could make the entire chassis a solid copper cube and that could cost say $1000 alone. And it could cool like shit. If they did then this $2k copper steam machine would be extremely overpriced.

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• femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to see what Sony and Microsoft price theirs at and how much of a loss it will be for them.

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  • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sony can afford to discount on the promise of online sales and planned cost reduction. I’m not sure Microsoft are going to manage another Xbox.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well… no.

      Thats… Sony and MSFT raised prices on all of their hardware too, same with Nintendo.

      We’re at the point where being a huge player… can only get you priority in the queue for chips and parts.

      It can no longer secure bulk pricing discounts.

      That’s how bad this is.

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• JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are overpriced and the current PC market is also overpriced.

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