Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console
binarytobis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think people underestimate how hard it is to build a computer this small and this functional with off the shelf parts. I have a case that just has a motherboard, power supply, and SSD in it for video streaming and web browsing on my TV, and it’s almost as big as this. It’s a relatively high spec MOBO since I wanted to stream fames from my PC initially, but still.
I don’t have confidence I could make this myself at these specs.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’ve been told for decades that building a PC is cheap and easy and more affordable than a console. Are you saying that was a PC gamer lying on repeat?
binarytobis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m saying that building one small is difficult.
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It certainly was the case, for a while, given you were shooting for similar specs to consoles. But times are a little different now.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Lol. This is a damned lie or some strange rejection of reality. I can’t decide.
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It really was, I migrated from console to pc around the beginning of the Xbox One/ps4 generation. It was more effort to hunt down parts and build a PC, for sure, but it was very doable to match console performance for the same price. These days though thanks in part to tariffs, and crypto mining, hardware prices are worse than they used to be.