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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨gwheel@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

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  • shweddy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder how much it would’ve cost if we didn’t have a dumb mother fucker in charge and greedy rich bastards weren’t hoarding all the supplies

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    • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s not just one dumb motherfucker in charge, it’s practically the entire goddamn government. anyone who isn’t vocally outspoken against AI companies and aiming to put a hard stop to their data centers is fully responsible for any and all harm they’re currently causing (and the hardware inflation is such a minor part of said harm).

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it’s practically the entire goddamn government.

        Why don’t you draw the logical conclusion, and realize it’s the American population that elected the dumb motherfucker that is responsible for the entire administration. And an American population that also elected a congress that doesn’t do anything!

        For fucks sake, Americans elected an obvious psychopath for president, with an equally psychopathic vice president!!!

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        abolish capitalism

        What does this mean, exactly?

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      speculation says 750ish. which really would have been perfect

      steamdeckhq.com/…/valve-steam-machine-original-pr…

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      • mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, this was my guess as well in a pre-ram crisis era.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        $750 is still about $250 too expensive for what it is and the performance it has.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Let’s pick Oct 2025 as our ‘pre RAMpocalypse’ time frame.

      Data source: pangoly.com

      (I removed BestBuy because it is an extremely erratic dataset that basically bounces around the average of others, but makes the graph nearly unreadable)

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      16GB DDR5 Crucial RAM

      Oct 2025: ~$50

      Jun 2026: ~$275

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      2TB NVME M.2 Crucial SSD

      Oct 2025: ~$140

      Jun 2026: ~$300 (if you remove Adorama)

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      512GB NVME M.2 Kingston SSD

      Oct 2025: ~$50

      Jun 2026: ~$200

      $275 - $50 = $225

      $300 - $140 = $160

      $225 + $160 = $385

      Thus, the 2TB variant has an effective ~$385 upcharge due to the RAMpocalypse.

      2TB variant MSRP is $1349, thus it would be ~$964 pre-RAMpocalypse, meaning that the RAMpocalypse % upcharge is ~39.9%


      Do the same with the 512GB variant:

      $275 - $50 = $225

      $200 - $50 = $150

      $225 + $150 = $375

      $375 effective RAMpocalypse upcharge.

      MSRP of 512GB variant is $1050, thus it would be ~$675 pre-RAMpocalypse, % upcharge of ~55.5%


      Obviously this methodology is not perfectly correct, but I’d argue its quite reasonable ‘napkin math’… you could maybe make an index of all prices of all brands of RAM/SSD in exact performance spec matches to be slightly more accurate, but yeah, roughly, the RAMpocalypse made the Steam Machine, on average, about 40% to 45% more expensive than it otherwise would have been.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently Valve said to look at the Steam Deck price hike for a clue. So probably around $750 for the base model.

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      • Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        999 for 1 tb with controller.

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    • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My guess would be like 600 or so for the base model.

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      • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        LTT got a bit of a guess from Valve, the estimate is that the price was adjusted roughly in line with the recent Steam Deck increase.

        Puts it about 850 or so for the base model, but that is going from announcement to now, not all the way back to the beginning of all this mess.

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  • bunnyBoy@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly surprised that they hit that price point with the way things are going. Still don’t need one so I won’t buy one, but about 1000 was what I was expecting

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same for me. I was expecting like $1200 for the base model which nobody should pay that much for such middling specs.

      But still $1k is way more than I’d pay for an HTPC. I’d much rather the steam link approach and use streaming to my already nice and powerful desktop. I guess this is a nice thing to point newbies who want a box that should “just work” and don’t already have something and don’t want to build.

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is for people who don’t have a nice and powerful desktop.

        They didn’t stop development of the link explicitly for people like you?

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was thinking more like $1500

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      • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Good(?) news! You can spend almost that much for the 2TB with a controller.

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  • Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow, my prediction was pretty close. 7 months ago, I predicted that the Steam Machine prices would be $800-$900 for the 512GB model, and $1,000-$1,200 for the 2TB model.

    That was in the middle of memory prices going vertical, and I still got down voted to hell by people claiming that they were expecting $600-$800 tops…

    Honestly, with how bad memory has become even over the last 6 months, and the increased brutality to the market done by tariffs and the oil supply shock, I’m actually surprised they were able to hit $1,049 for the base model.

    The hard truth: It’s an acceptable price within a piss-poor market. The harder truth: It will sell out extremely fast and won’t restock likely for months.

    When Framework announced their new Framework 13 Pro line laptops last month, a lot of people balked at the price. $1,500 was the cheapest pre-built model, and DIY was basically the same price, unless you already had some components. The pricing for higher tier specs easily climbed to $2,000+

    Still, they sold out of every model for the first 6-8 batches in a few days, and barely 2 months later, they are sold out to batch 15, with an expected delivery in October.

    The K-shaped market is further becoming a reality. The people that have the money to drop on stuff like this, are happily dropping it. And the people who can’t afford it are getting left in the dust.

    The scumbag oligarchs have created the cyberpunk dystopia, and most of us aren’t going to be living up in the shiny skyscrapers…

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nice accuracy and precision on those estimates dude. It’s hard to get that shit right

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was in the middle of memory prices going vertical, and I still got down voted to hell by people claiming that they were expecting $600-$800 tops…

      I was getting really tired of the people that kept insisting that Valve would take a loss on the Steam Machine despite their repeated statements that they weren’t going to do so.

      At least now they’ll shut up about it, though a lot of them are probably the ones getting mad about the actual release price. But that’s their fault for convincing themselves.

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tried telling people it will be over $1000 on all the forums and discussion sites I’m on, and no-one would believe me lol.

      lemmy.net.au/post/778194/1924328

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  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s obviously not Valve’s fault but man, that’s expensive. Wasn’t planning on getting one anyway, but it certainly makes me worried about what the Frame may cost.

    Anyone here planning on getting one? I do wonder how much of a market there is for it at this price.

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    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is the frame more expensive hardware? Can we make any sort of reasonable determination on frame price now that we know the gabecubes cost?

      At announcement I was hoping $700, which I don’t see happening. Are we still expecting index pricing or is that not happening?

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The frame sure aint gonna be cheap hardware. 0% chance it can match the quest in price. But since it doesn’t need as much storage I’m hoping it’ll be 700-800. But I wouldn’t blink if it’s $1000. Valve just doesn’t have the economies of scale Meta will.

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      • ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think that $600 is a subsidized price and not really useful for comparison. I would expect the Frame to be at least $1000. The hardware likely is more expensive overall since it also includes displays. They aren’t high end screens but they still add significant cost. It is probably more expensive to assemble each Frame compared to the Steam Machine also. I wouldn’t be surprised if the low end model is $1500+

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      • PonyOfWar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s hard to say, but at least before the component shortages, I would have expected the Frame to be more expensive than the Steam Machine. After all, it has 2 included controllers, displays, batteries, tracking cameras etc. But maybe the lower memory and storage (if you go for the 256GB) along with its mobile SoC might help reduce the effects of the component crisis somewhat. I don’t expect it to be below 1k€ though, personally.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone here planning on getting one?

      I might get a 2tb. If I don’t game on it, I might swap the Linux version and use it for work. We have standardized in fully decked out System76 Meerkats with Proxmox VE serving jump hosts to manage different clients, so I can use it for that, or I can leverage the GPU and use it for datadump and log analysis. The point is, that it wouldn’t be money wasted. Ideally, I’d like to play games on it though.

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That was a rollercoaster! lol

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If I don’t game on it, I might swap the Linux version and use it for work.

        But…why? There are much better small form factor PCs for significantly cheaper than this.

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I really wanted one, but now it’s an easy wait for at least some kind of sale.

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      • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think they’ve ever had any sales for hardware. The only discounted hardware I’ve seen was the refurbished Deck.

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    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I genuinely can’t see any reason to get one. Like… if you’re a PC gamer with enough spare cash to get one, you can probably get a better gaming PC for the same money. If you’re a console gamer, there’s no reason to switch because the 512gb with no controller is almost double the cost of a five year old PS5, which has better specs and a controller, plus you’d have to buy all your games again, if they’re even available on Steam (and also if they even work in Linux.) The only thing I think it could be be good for is as a budget gaming PC, but it’s wildly over-priced for that.

      Not Valve’s fault of course, but yeah there’s no way for me personally.

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    • derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I signed up to get one the moment I heard about the price. I like gaming on my PC, but I much prefer playing certain games on the big screen in the living room. Likewise, my partner has gotten used to the Steam Deck’s UI so it’ll be great to get her more into gaming.

      The Steam Deck + Dock is what I currently use, but playing everything in 720p upscaled to 1080 (or just playing indie games) is pretty frustrating.

      And I’ve used moonlight/steam streaming/even Nvidia gamestream (I have an Nvidia shield) - while they’re fine solutions, I don’t like the compression artifacts of streaming. Also annoys me that the game physically renders on my computer.

      So, yeah, TL;DR I want a Steam Machine. I’m also excited to use desktop mode on occasion. And when the machine finally runs its course, it’ll be a nice looking server for the closet!

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I like gaming on my PC, but I much prefer playing certain games on the big screen in the living room

        These things aren’t mutually exclusive. My PC is hooked up to my 75" tv in the games room.

        With the specs of this steam machine, the last thing you would want to do is play it on a big screen lol. It will look atrocious. To even hit barely playable framerates you have to run at basically ultra low settings at 720p and use FSR3 (vomits) to get it back up to 1440p.

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    • shiv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was going to but only existing steam accounts can pre order. I get it, but trying to go from console as a poor just feels impossible at this point.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just take solace in your local library

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Much as I would love an upgrade to my Steam Deck (which I mostly used docked), I can’t justify more than $500, much less $1000. Glad I snagged the $400 LCD Steam Deck when I did. The Steam Deck price hikes are what prompted me to get a Switch 2, as I don’t see any other new sub-$500 consoles coming out for a long, long time.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m considering getting one. I currently have a nearly silent computer working as a HTPC but I can’t play games on it. I can get around that with Steam Link, but that isn’t ideal. So, it would be an upgrade that would let me play games on my living room TV without needing to tie up the gaming computer.

      The other thing it looks ideal for is a travel computer. Gaming laptops suck. Often they’re absurdly expensive. When they’re decently powerful, they’re almost always obscenely loud. That fan whine really bothers me. Plus, they almost always have major Linux compatibility issues. The current laptop I’m using with Linux has weird driver quirks. Like, for example, to re-enable WiFi after it goes to sleep I need to wake it up from sleep, turn on airplane mode and then turn it off again. Only then will the WiFi work again. And getting an external monitor to work after sleep… ugh.

      Also, I think it’s easy to underestimate the value of what is effectively a Linux gaming console. I’m almost exclusively a PC gamer these days, but one thing I always appreciated about consoles is that you never had to ask “will this game run well on my console?” 99.9% of the time, if a game was released for a console, it was optimized for that console. Even when a game was multi-platform like say FIFA, each console got a build that was as good as possible for that console. For PC games, I think that means most developers will have a Gabecube and ensure all their games run as well as possible on it. The fact that it’s Linux-first is also important to me. It means any drivers or software updates will be tested and optimized on Linux. It won’t be an afterthought like it is most of the time.

      So, this machine is nearly silent, runs Linux, and plays most of the games in my Steam library. It’s expensive, but maybe it’s worth it?

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    • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did the promise with witnesses and all to get one at least in year 2 if it launches with Half life 3 just cause the memes I haven’teven player HL ever. If it drops to 600 or so I’m getting it.

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    • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have been waiting for the price to see about replacing my Xbox series S as I degoogling/M$ as much as possible. I just want a streaming box that I can play light games on.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I just want a streaming box that I can play light games on.

        If that’s what you want, get an apple tv or shield tv lol.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m surprised people think $1,100 is high, even outside the current environment.

    Same with the $500 Commodore phone.

    The dollar has inflated. Technology is expensive. I think cheap junk has desensitized folks to that, but you pay an externalized cost for that.

    And of course salaries haven’t gone up so anyone can actually afford it, but… that’s a distinctly separate problem. They should have, as corporate revenue and profit per worker has certainly gone up.

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    • binux@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Valve directly stated that they had to reconsider their pricing for the steam machine (i.e. increase it substantially more than originally intended) because of the obscenely inflated costs of components. This isn’t just about the steam machine being “too expensive,” the prices for it are quite literally far higher than they should be, albeit with it being for the most part out of Valve’s hands. It’s far more complicated than consumers being greedy and desensitized.

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      • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wonder why they never named it the radiator?

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hol, hol, hol up… Commodore Phone? 🤔

      Huh, I’ll be damned!

      commodore.net/callback/

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m surprised people think $1,100 is expensive for a gaming PC, even outside the crazy memory market now.

      $1100 isn’t expensive for a gaming PC. It is, however, expensive for this gaming PC because it’s so incredibly underpowered and non upgradeable that it may as well not even be called a gaming PC. This thing struggles hard to hit playable framerates in current gen games. Even at 720p they’re struggling to hit 30fps. For “next gen” games it’s basically going to just be left in the dark, won’t even be able to play them. The memory bandwidth is terrible, the 8GB VRAM is terrible, the CPU is terrible, and the GPU is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel.

      At this exorbitant price it’s DOA. It’ll no doubt sell out because of the steam fangirls buying anything valve throws at them, but they’ll be producing so few of this thing that selling out will mean nothing. They should have cancelled this as soon as they couldn’t launch it for $500.

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      • Datz@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “30fps at 720p”

        In games such as?

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    • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yea … I was thinking that is seemed fairly average. I had to replace my kids PC when it went bad. A low-mid tier gaming PC at Bestbuy was $1300, $1600 after I grabbed more memory to put in it.

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  • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Steep as shit but still somehow cheaper than expected. We love AI bullshit destroying the entire hardware market hell yeah

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  • savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck genAI.

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  • ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    410 CAD to go from 512GB to 2TB, and sadly that’s pretty much just what a 2TB drive costs these days.

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    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep. Storage prices are insane.

      Image price shown in USD not including tax/vat

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      • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        2 Years ago I got a cheap 2TB SATA SSD for 106euro. The same listing today stands at 230.

        In January this year I got 12TB WD hdd off manufacturer site for 230 (25% discount off an official price of 330 or so). Today it is 560 and 25% discount would end up being higher than the cost of that HDD pre-AI bullshit. Thanks, ChatGPT…

        If not for AI bros, we’d have Steam Machine around 700.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it does include two additional faceplates, including the walnut veneer

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Valve on the pricing of it:

    Steam Machine, like our other hardware products, is made up of many components that we source from manufacturers around the world. The price at which we sell our hardware is a direct result of the cost of these components. We felt like we had a good understanding of how those costs might change over time when we first started sourcing them for Steam Machine back in 2023. That understanding was born from the many years of data we all have about the evolution of PC hardware prices – primarily, that it tends to get cheaper over time as new technology arrives.

    Over the past year or so, that has changed quickly and significantly, most visibly for RAM and storage components. There are a variety of reasons, all of which are affecting hardware products everywhere. The overall effect is that our original goal for the price of Steam Machine is no longer viable. So the prices we’re sharing today reflect the state of the world for manufacturing; or, more accurately, it reflects the price of the components as we’ve secured them over the past 6 months.

    Price wasn’t the only thing impacted by all of this: availability was as well. There were periods where we found we couldn’t source some of our components at all, at any price. More than anything else, this has impacted the number of units we’ve been able to produce for launch.

    Also:

    If I don’t get a Steam Machine right away, is there anything else I can do?

    Thanks to the openness of the PC platform, there are lots of options for devices that will allow you to run games natively or streamed to your TV. There are many PC sites and communities out there that can help you with that. For our part, we are continuing to work toward enabling SteamOS to be used on more hardware than just ours. In fact, with the newly-released SteamOS 3.8, you can run the same code and operating system as Steam Machine on your own living-room PC using whatever PC parts you want:

    help.steampowered.com/en/…/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227 . Right now, only AMD GPUs are supported, but we’re working on expanding support for the future.

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    • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s hard to hold the steep price point against Valve when their communication looks like this.

      The common Gabe W.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    reasonable given the current situation but not reasonable in general. I’ll wait for prices to go down or my income to go up.

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    • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t get a PS5 when it came out for the same reason. Now it’s more expensive than it was at launch and my wages haven’t changed.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, we saved for a week, maybe two I don’t remember. I finally saved enough money and my wife bought it as a birthday present for me last year how long was that since release? A couple weeks right. Doesn’t really matter, my friendly local public library has enough cool shit in it to do that I wasn’t wanting for fun. Unless there’s something specific that’s ps5 exclusive you want to play, just get a ps4 and a library card. It kind of feels like blockbuster.

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  • _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Steam Machine 512GB: $1,049 USD / 1,509 CAD / 1,039 EUR / 879 GBP / 1,609 AUD / 4,389 PLN

    Bundle: Steam Machine 512GB + Steam Controller: $1,128 USD / 1,628 CAD / 1,108 EUR / 938 GBP / 1,728 AUD / 4,698 PLN

    Steam Machine 2TB: $1,349 USD / 1,919 CAD / 1,359 EUR / 1,149 GBP / 2,109 AUD / 5,739 PLN

    Bundle: Steam Machine 2TB + Steam Controller: $1,428 USD / 2,038 CAD / 1,428 EUR / 1,208 GBP / 2,228 AUD / 6,048 PLN

    Both the Steam Machine 2TB and 2TB bundle options come with two additional faceplates: red fabric, and solid walnut.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To me, at this point it makes no sense to go with 512gb model, if you pay already that much money. The limitations of 512 is too extreme in my opinion.

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      • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can always replace the storage yourself. A 2TB NVMe doesnt even cost $300 (most are around $250), and if you swapped it yourself, you’d have a 512 GB one to stick into an enclosure and use as a portable hard drive.

        And you don’t even have to do that immediately. 512 GB is plenty to start. Especially since not everyone plays enormous AAA games with hundreds of mods. You can upgrade at any time.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And at the price that the 2TB model is, you’d be an idiot to buy it.

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      • ericwdhs@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s worth remembering that most discussions like this are dominated by enthusiasts (including both of us) whereas most people in general are not enthusiasts.

        In my experience, most people don’t actively play more than 512GB worth of games at once, and you can add to this with spare microSD cards or other PCs on the network. Steam makes transferring game installs to the main SSD from elsewhere rather painless.

        Even as a bit of a data hoarder myself, I only really go beyond 512GB to: 1) keep pace with multiple friend groups that like entirely different game genres I need to all keep available at a moment’s notice, and 2) maintain games modded outside the Steam workshop that I may not play that often but still want to not have to set up more than necessary.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And if you get the controller bundle, you save $20 over buying it separately.

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      • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You also save 9 months of waiting on the pre-order list but that’s not a good reason.

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  • ekZepp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not Valve fault, but at this point i just feel lucky to have brought the Deck Oled before all this ram circus.

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  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eeesh too rich for me, but happy for anyone that gets one!

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s surprisingly reasonable

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Although we now live in a world where hardware can be reasonably priced and still too fucking expensive for what it is at the same time.

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yup, the times are a changing.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is surprising to me that nobody has attempted to Luigi a tech CEO yet, Everybody has 10 independent, different reasons to hate AI, lives have been destroyed and yet no Luigi for now.

    RIP steam hardware, a revolution repressed by AI slop costs.

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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It's more expensive than we all would hope, but not unreasonably so given the economic situation.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s gonna be a no for me dawg.

    I blame the AI bubble memory shortage for making this over $1,000 USD.

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  • BitsAndBites@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now tell me what I care about…the Stram Frame!!

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  • lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wan’t to see it compared to some of the less costly mini pc’s out there.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I look forward to see this reviewed, 28 Compute Units on the GPU is below the Radeon RX 9060 XT that has 32.
    Hopefully it isn’t too limited in other aspects like RAM bandwidth.

    But on the other hand an RX 9060 XT alone is almost half the price of this entire unit. So if it can perform about as fast as that, it seems like a pretty good deal.

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t even realize they launched today until I saw the GamersNexus review

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Expensive, but cheaper than I expected. Even at its original price point it probably would have been more than I was willing to pay.

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really wanted one, but at this price point I can build a considerably more capable mATX PC. If I had a living room screen I might consider it, but as a pure gaming PC it doesn’t work for me.

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  • Enzy@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah no thanks.

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  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks AI.

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  • morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They lost me at that price point, sadly. And I was really looking forward to this thing launching.

    Valve makes damn good products, I’m rocking a Steam Deck and a SC in my personal collection, and love them both.

    But my next PC upgrade was looking to be just that… a power upgrade. That was the main focus.

    The small form factor, the excellent presentation, and the Valve quality that we all know this is going to have… they would have been nice. But right now I’m looking for equal or better than SM performance regardless of form factor, and I have my sights on a couple of options to get that at least a couple of hundred dollars cheaper. Sorry Gabe.

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Market is so screwed right now anyway, but at that price you could just build a significantly beefier PC with used parts.

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  • inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sad (but not surprised) it’s that expensive because I would have jumped on it at 700€, at the same time it encourages me to try and find individual parts for a custom build at the same price with greater theoretical performance

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For that kind of money, I may end up building my own running on Bazzite. That’s not to say I don’t like it, it looks bad-ass, but 1K+ for that hardware is a bit much. I’m thinking I can build something a bit more powerful for 100 or 200 dollars less.

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