Meh. It’s just going to be a niche device anyway thanks to (not within their control) pricing.
I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do
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psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
100% agree. This would have been a great way for console lovers to get in on pc gaming.
But bc of wildly gestures at EVERYTHING this will be a collector’s item for people who are already into the Valve ecosystem.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
It would have brought me over to PC gaming — even at that dumb price — if it had a few basic things right.
For example, 4K/60 not being baseline performance on a $1000+ machine is a deal breaker.
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If anyone - like me - would like to print the Companion Cube stand, it’s on makerworld:
_spiffy@piefed.ca 5 hours ago
I’ve had mine for a few weeks now and have experienced a few issues.
Mostly with game performance after it goes to sleep. Not sure why. Doom eternal was struggling at 45fps, but then I rebooted it and was getting 200fps in the same area on the same settings. It’s made much worse if my son was playing a game and put it to sleep while the game was open. Even switching profiles doesn’t improve it.
It gets stuck in a loop sometimes as well with CEC, I ended up turning it all off.
Sometimes it wakes itself up after going to sleep via the power menu, but if I let it wait 30 min it sleeps on its own no problem.
But other than that I love it. It’s such a great device and it has pretty good performance for its power usage.
I have just started rebooting the machine after I wake it if I know the kids were using it.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Replace Steam Machine with Xbox or PlayStation 5 and the internet would melt down.
How do some companies get away with inferior product releases while some can’t?
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Have you ever purchased a console at launch? There are always minor issues like the ones described here.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I have. They never had all of these issues in the article. If they did i’d return them because they obviously were malfunctioning.
Same question: Have you?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Because those other consoles are not general purpose computers that have value without the original OS. A steam machine is just a compact desktop computer that happens to have a fancy version of steam on it. The fact that the OS is largely open source and hackable and the fact that valve contributes uncountable amounts of dev hours worth of code back to the FOSS community also helps.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
So if it’s PC architecture it gets a pass for being mediocre and for malfunctioning/failing at basic functions.
Got it.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Eh, I had a Steam Deck on release and that was buggy too. The nice thing is, Valve will keep working on it, seemingly in perpetuity.
My Steam Link still receives updates and that thing is like a decade old, was discontinued 8 years ago, and yet it got an update two weeks ago.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 hour ago
Love my Steam Deck and was considering a Steam Machine but I think I'm just going to spend a little extra for a solid mid range desktop.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Coincidentally, my Steam Machine turned up in the post today.
Initial review; if you like the Steam Deck, you’ll love the Machine.
Only tested Stray in 4K so far and it has zero issues.
I’m sure I could build a desktop cheaper but it’d be impossible to build something as tiny as it - my hand is bigger than the face of the Machine.