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Looks like some kind of review embargo has been released, ETA Prime’s apparently been sitting on a review model Steam Machine for a month.
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I think I’m in. It’s expensive but I want an htpc/gaming machine in my Mancave. I don’t know how anyone could have expected $600 price tags in this crap ai fueled market.
Not in the market, but the prices could’ve been a lot worse. Lottery wait list is also good news after the clusterfuck of the controller launch.
Hope I can snag a Frame, because I’ve literally been waiting since the Oculus 1 for this kind of VR headset.
Yeah, I’m guessing they’re also uh, in addition to the lottery, going to be attempting some backend strategy to attempt to weed out likely ‘this is a fake account for resellers’.
I’ve been saying since the beginning of the RAM crisis that was no way this was going to be under $999 since Valve wasn’t willing to make it a loss leader. Oh, the sweet validation. And more importantly: fuck AI. I’ll see you all when the Steam Frame is +$1,499 USD.
Wasn’t willing to
It’s piterally a PC. IT departments all over the world would have absolutely no problem taking this hardware, and using it for their open office hell. Steam would get absolutely zero dollars, they need the hardware to stand on its own
I’m not faulting them (look at what happened with the PS3), but it was still a point towards its price being higher than the folks that thought it’d be priced closer to a PS5 or Xbox Series.
Yep.
I was initially hopeful that this thing might be surprisingly affordable, due to… basicslly the theory is that the ‘semi custom’ apu was initially intended to be used in a planned but cancel Windows tablet/Surface kind of thing…
But yeah, then, tariffs, rampocalypse, strait’s closed due to raids = shipping costs go up bigly.
I’m pretty sure the way Valve does their internal finances is that that 30% cut of all games?
Sure some of it goes toward Steam server costs, but I think most of it just goes into a giant war chest fund, from which they ‘experiment’, with things like this.
Makes sense to me that they at least want to break even… business wise, that works if it makes more people use Steam and/or increases their reputation as actually innovating in some way.
But being a loss leader would simply be too dangerous, too risky. They are small fries compared to the major console/pc hw manufacturers, and I am very sure the last thing they would ever want to do is owe some outside actor a lot of money.
I would love to see Valve reach 10b annually with their hardware expansion.
So how do we feel about these prices?
We feel that they are happy they already have a gaming rig.
RIP to anyone who bought a home after 2019 and anyone who bought anything gaming after Rampocalypse
Gaming was unaffordable before the end of 2020 but it got real bad after the rampocalypse.
I am totally open to other people having different stances, but at least for myself, worth it.
I already have an OLED Deck with a 1 TB drive.
So, I can get the 512 GB + controller bundle, and just swap the drives.
$1128 for a ‘pc’ that can run RDR2 and Cyberpunk 77 at pretty darn good graphical settings, at 1440p? And fancy pantsy controller?
Good enough, my eyes are starting to go a bit anyways lol, 4K is very likely wasted on me, and I’d love to have a Steam Deck that’s basically easier to hold and lighter, as a control option.
That’d be a steal, imo, looking at it in PC pricing terms… which is the way I’m looking at it, because that’s the way I’ll mostly be using it.
I don’t think it’s bad for what they are specs wise, with the current distorted components market. I do think however that the price is higher than what the target audience will be willing/able to afford to pay which is a shame.
It won’t do as well as it should have; I hope that doesn’t put valve off the concept. The idea is right, it was just very bad timing for this particular launch.
They are exactly what I originally thought, 1-1.5 and and I kind of don’t really know how you couldn’t see this coming. I think it’s fair given the external factors. It’s a pre built so add 20% to the “parts list” and you get cool features.
Let’s wait to see the perfs? From my understanding of the specs I don’t regret building my new pc earlier this year.
… watch the video.
The majority of it literally is performance testing of various games.
Sunshine@piefed.ca 28 minutes ago
The performance benchmarks will be the best determining factor of buying or not.