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- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 1 week ago:
Definitely a valid use for a living room PC!
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 1 week ago:
I’ve read that, but haven’t come across any issues with gaming … is that strictly an issue if you want to also use it for media?
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 1 week ago:
Yeah… having done similar research (and it was less the price and more the waitlist), there really isn’t much that’s comparable, despite what YouTube dudes and commenters will tell you. Their view of “the market” is months old. I put together multiple builds on NewEgg and even using an NVME I already have, I could really only match the price, and there was always at least one additional compromise.
Frankly, the whole exercise with the BC-250 and pricing out ITX builds has only convinced me that the SM is actually the product I want, and a much better “value proposition” than we’d all like to admit. I do enjoy the BC-250 and it’s allowing me to play games I didn’t want to or couldn’t play on Steam Deck, but the downsides are real and effect every play session (waiting 90 seconds for boot-up, can’t play my emulator because I followed some sketchy ass vibe-coded instructions from a YouTube video and broke something, noisy fan on moderately demanding titles, playing at desk vs. living room, etc.) I haven’t turned it on in a week for many of these reasons.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 1 week ago:
First thing is the power envelope and cooling requirements. The stock cooler is just so customized for server rack there aren’t really any good no-compromise quiet and cool solutions.
Second is just a lot of software tweaking. While the community has done a lot of really impressive things… they’re also vibe coding a lot of this stuff. It changes often and it’s hard to tell what the code is doing.
Finally is the sleep mode: there is none. You either leave it on all the time (I’ve dealt with Bazzite crashing in this case), or you boot and shutdown every time. Also no power control via controller or HDMI-CEC.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s been a fun side project while I languish on the infinite waitlist. If you have a 3D printer, it’s a good opportunity to utilize that. But the end result, even if you go full AIO cooling + soldering ESP32 power control boards, you won’t have that plug-and-play, set and forget SteamOS experience.
- Comment on Gamers Are Building Steam Machines From Repurposed PS5 APUs 1 week ago:
I have a BC-250 and it is so far in the opposite direction of what the Steam Machine is offering. It’s weird to me they’re being compared…
It’s a fun DIY hobby project, but if I ever get the chance at a SM, I’ll buy it because plug and play is valuable to me and this is the exact opposite of that.
- Comment on I love my Steam Machine but there's lots of work Valve need to do 2 weeks ago:
Do note the BC-250 can be LOUD with air cooling, uses much more power, and has no sleep or hibernate state.
That’s to say nothing of the pretty substantial tweaking and modification that’s needed to get it that 1:1 performance level. It’s also not 4K/60.
Still a fun project but certainly not the same type of thing as “open box, play games” which is what SM aims to deliver.
- Comment on Steam Machine Reservations Should All Clear This Year - FullCleared 3 weeks ago:
The only hope for a waitlisted loser like me is that they are moving people off the waitlist “when we reach the end of the reservation queue for that product and region.”
Meanwhile I get to watch every YouTuber getting one just to make ragebait videos about.
- Comment on Steam Machine Reservations Should All Clear This Year - FullCleared 3 weeks ago:
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- Submitted 5 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 1 month ago:
Weird to congratulate someone for randomly earning the right to buy a product…
But, ya know, congrats.
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 1 month ago:
Full email:
You are on the waitlist for Steam Machine 512GB
When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of units we’ll have in this production run.
As we work our way through the reservation queue, some customers may cancel their reservations. If that happens, you may be moved into the reservation queue, and you’ll be notified via email that you have a reservation after all.
This is the only email you will receive about the results of the randomization. If you ended up with a waitlist spot for one or more models, you’ll be placed on the waitlist for the model that you were closest to the front of.
- Comment on Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine) 1 month ago:
Just got my email. I’m on the waitlist, no date given.
- Comment on The recent SteamOS 3.8 update seems to have greatly improved steam remote play 2 months ago:
Does Remote Play work for non-Steam games running in Steam?
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026 2 months ago:
Sure, with the caveat that everyone’s definition of “playable” is different.
I am using the latest Eden AppImage and a 1.4.2 ROM. I didn’t change anything in Eden besides controller setup and increasing the RAM to 8GB (this has to be done in the game config). This gets you fps in the teens and 20s.
Then I ran the NX Optimizer AppImage. I used the Steam Deck preset and chose the 2nd of the 2 TotK entries on the game menu. The only change I made was the lower shadows to 512x. I don’t know if that did anything… the shadows do look pretty bad. Then I clicked “Apply”. Note that if you have multiple emulators, NX is going to try to figure out which one to apply to. I’d get rid of anything that’s not Eden AND the settings folders that are in
~/.local/share.NX adds a “mod” entry you can view and turn on and off in the game settings. It also installs something called UltraCam, and you’ll know that because it changes the game opening and adds UI elements. Now I have no clue what any of this stuff is doing. It’s poorly explained… Like is it just modifying emulator settings you could do yourself? Is it doing something to the ROM? No clue. You can make adjustments to UltraCam settings by hitting both triggers combined with left stick click. I changed resolution to 900p, and turned on FSR. But it’s unclear how much that helped.
Anyway, the result is a max, locked 30 fps. It will dip while shaders are caching and when you first use ultrahand and in villages and other areas with fire. It is not smooth by any means but it’s “mostly smooth”. Usually in the open world and in shrines it’s stable. There’s also some banding from what I assume is anti-aliasing, but I don’t see any turned on in any setting I can locate, so who knows.
Like I said, it’s good enough for me. Like you the ergonomics of the Steam Deck are so much better than Switch that I’ll take the compromise here.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026 2 months ago:
They’ve published a bunch of updates, with pretty detailed change logs. Have you checked to see if they addressed the issue.
I haven’t got nearly that far. It’s an absolutely amazing recomp and I love that it exists, but as I’m fiddling with the controls and the camera and the combat I’m just thinking “Breath of the Wild exists, why am I doing this?”
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - June 2026 2 months ago:
Last month I finished up Transiruby, which is a really fun and breezy Metroidvania. The art style and the incredible chiptune soundtrack gave me big Axiom Verge vibes, despite being quite tonally different.
My June project is getting TotK emulation working satisfactorily, which finally happened last night after far too much trial and error. I know Nintendo’s lawyers have made everyone scared but the amount of vagueposting around this subject is maddening. This means I can likely sell my Switch as it was the only game I had left to play. It also means I have to play the first 10 hours of the game again…
- Comment on It didn't have to be this way | Nerdnest - Youtube (Invidious link) 2 months ago:
I was confused by this news because I buy games cheaper from other retailers all the time, even Steam keys. I assume this about full retail price, but since PC games go on sale so often, it seems like “average retail price” can easily be lower through another store front.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I’d put up with weird looks for that + the more powerful chipset.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 2 months ago:
Still $999 here, although that’s for a more powerful processor. Those grips though, lol.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 2 months ago:
Valve probably needs to implement their waitlist system for all hardware at this point.
But the point remains, if it’s “not worth it”, who are scalpers gonna sell it to?
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 2 months ago:
Crazy! Universally people saying “not worth it at that price” and yet…
Lower inventory than expected? Extreme FOMO?
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 2 months ago:
I share your skepticism, because Valve is definitely in a damned if you do/don’t situation. But…
The only people who could justify an absurdly high price for a Steam Machine are the people who NEED a plug-and-play console-like system and can afford a high price. And that is just not a big market.
I’m not sure it was ever a large market. Like I don’t think based on Valve’s comments during the launch that they were thinking “bigger than the Steam Deck”. It really felt like “for the subset of Deck users who want this too, and maybe it’ll surprise us.” The commentary around price has ALWAYS been “it’s going to be too expensive”, from the second it was announced, so it’s hard to know how much the price will actually impact sales, because so many people want to talk about how they’d buy a thing if not for this one factor who were never ever going to buy the thing.
The pricing is definitely going to be a problem now, there is no way around that. But because I’m the person you are describing, I will say… I’m just over building PCs and the inherent compromises (nevermind that the component prices are crushing that market too). The guy who did the video a few months back was a) in Canada, b) buying shit in parking lots from FB marketplace, c) doing this 6 months ago, before the war. I’m not convinced it could be done reasonably today at some remarkably lower price than whatever you think the Steam Machine will cost.
I don’t want the ecosystem lock-in of consoles, I already own tons of PC games. I want exactly what Valve is cooking, and not really anything else. Even if it’s an alleged better value.
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 2 months ago:
I got a refurbished 512GB for $439 a year ago, that is nuts.
What’s even available that’s competitive? Legion Go 2 prices are absolutely bonkers, maybe the first gen at $849?
MS still had launch MSRP for the ROG Xbox Ally models.
Protecting my deck with my life…
- Submitted 2 months ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 70 comments
- Comment on Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time (note: percentage is questionable) 4 months ago:
Linux DESTROYS Windows with FACTS and LOGIC
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - March 2026 5 months ago:
I used the Wii version. There was a (mostly) helpful video that had links to pre-configured controller mappings so I can do all the motion control stuff with regular controls. The star aiming isn’t quite as intuitive, but I’ve not had an issue playing casually.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you playing on your Deck? - March 2026 5 months ago:
After the winter sale and some Christmas gift cards I was kinda paralyzed by choice and just stopped playing.
I’ve been following “Video Game Club” on Mastodon and the March game is Super Mario Galaxy. So getting emulator and controller working for that and getting it going. The game itself seems decent, but has not become a total timesink yet.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
Yeah I think that was my point about feeling like Valve is purposely screwing me. Microsoft showed with the Xbox Ally X that their appetite for hardware subsidies is waning (perhaps even their appetite for hardware at all).
Valve has a lot of goodwill with Steam Deck owners and I think if they price it at a number higher than any one person’s expectations, that person is less likely to think it’s Valve’s fault, than if Sony were to do the same.
- Comment on Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
See point a. Everyone is so capitalism-brained they assume every company’s goal is to sell the maximum amount of product and anything less is abject failure. (Ok that’s a bit of hyperbole.) But Valve is a weird company and we just don’t know what their criteria for success is.
If they’re aiming for a market the same size or larger than the Steam Deck, they will probably struggle at higher price points. But if they’re look at 1-2M units? That could be doable with people like me. That’s a relatively small portion of the gaming market, but might be enough for them to be worth it.