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https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
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.
Expensive, but cheaper than I expected. Even at its original price point it probably would have been more than I was willing to pay.
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
Apparently Valve said to look at the Steam Deck price hike for a clue. So probably around $750 for the base model.
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).
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!!!
My guess would be like 600 or so for the base model.
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
Same for me. I was expecting like $1200 for the base model which nobody should pay that much for such middling specs.
But still $1k is way more than I’d pay for an HTPC. I’d much rather the steam link approach and use streaming to my already nice and powerful desktop. I guess this is a nice thing to point newbies who want a box that should “just work” and don’t already have something and don’t want to build.
This is for people who don’t have a nice and powerful desktop.
They didn’t stop development of the link explicitly for people like you?
Steep as shit but still somehow cheaper than expected. We love AI bullshit destroying the entire hardware market hell yeah
It’s obviously not Valve’s fault but man, that’s expensive. Wasn’t planning on getting one anyway, but it certainly makes me worried about what the Frame may cost.
Anyone here planning on getting one? I do wonder how much of a market there is for it at this price.
I have been waiting for the price to see about replacing my Xbox series S as I degoogling/M$ as much as possible. I just want a streaming box that I can play light games on.
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?
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.
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.
I really wanted one, but now it’s an easy wait for at least some kind of sale.
I don’t think they’ve ever had any sales for hardware. The only discounted hardware I’ve seen was the refurbished Deck.
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.
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.
And if you get the controller bundle, you save $20 over buying it separately.
You also save 9 months of waiting on the pre-order list but that’s not a good reason.
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.
I was wrong. People told me weeks ago the cheapest options with smallest drive and without controller will be at least 1k priced. I really did not think this would happen… but here we are. Steam Machine is basically dead on arrival, this hurts.
410 CAD to go from 512GB to 2TB, and sadly that’s pretty much just what a 2TB drive costs these days.
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.
Now tell me what I care about…the Stram Frame!!
That’s gonna be a no for me dawg.
I blame the AI bubble memory shortage for making this over $1,000 USD.
I would really like to have one. But I own a XBOX Series X and realistically that’s fine for me to use. hardware wise, the Steam Machine is not even a big update.
I’ll wait 8 years for the next gen Steam Machine.
It's more expensive than we all would hope, but not unreasonably so given the economic situation.
Eeesh too rich for me, but happy for anyone that gets one!
That’s surprisingly reasonable
Sad, but expected
I didn’t even realize they launched today until I saw the GamersNexus review
I don't think it's "launched" yet since they're doing a raffle system:
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Launched in the sense that the review embargo is lifted, I suppose.
It was a surprise drop, as far as I know. We knew it would be soon due to rumors.
I got the dBrand Companion Cube notification just after midnight.
dbrand.com/shop/limited-edition/companion-cube
So I was HOPING today!
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
You can probably build a DDR4 system that is a bit cheaper with better performance. It will be even easier if you pick some used components.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
First - THANK YOU for the heads up! I was hoping when I got the dBrand Companion Cube notification just after midnight.
dbrand.com/shop/limited-edition/companion-cube
Second - Anyone notice the controller bundles save you $20 over buying the controller individually? Not so sad my controller reservation is AWOL.