Comment on I’ve already been using a “Steam Machine” for months, and I think it’s great

• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s good the machine is not super powered. If people stop buying the latest gpus so often, then devs will need to optimize their games or target weaker hardware.

  I really want this to be the case.

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• psycotica0@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think there’s people who have gaming as a hobby, and people who have speccing and building a gaming PC as a hobby.

  And Valve was never going to sell anything to the PC Hobby crowd, because they get their fun from squeezing every dime and finding the absolute best bang for the buck or whatever.

  So I think it’s sensible for Valve to be like “yeah, we’re just going to make a pretty good machine for people who don’t care about how much VRAM it has”.

  And the comments of every review and YouTube video will be full of people complaining about how you can get so much more for so much less, and that it’s dogshit, but that’s because the people on those sites are the hobby people.

  But that won’t necessarily translate into selling like hotcakes. I hope it does, for several reasons, but only time will tell if there’s enough people in the market for that kind of machine that aren’t the hobby people.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A guy at work bought a 5080 and he plays FPSs. lol

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  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t get it.

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    • a_person@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      he bought an expensive as shit graphics card for games that most of the computing is done server side instead of client side.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      ok

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