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ezst036 The sad thing is that (I think) it is almost certain that the AI fueled price hikes have killed the new Steam Machine. I expect a quiet mention some time in the next few months, a low key cancellation. Everybody's gonna blow it up of course it will be big news. Its sad to see. Note: I want to be wrong about the fate of the SM. Reply
Notton That is annoying, but you can still get alternatives. BestBuy.ca is selling the LeGo S Z1E/32GB/1TB/SteamOS for C$800 right now. Which is US$585 at current conversion rates. For reference, SteamDeck OLED 1TB is… or was US$649. Reply
LordVile ezst036 said: The sad thing is that (I think) it is almost certain that the AI fueled price hikes have killed the new Steam Machine. I expect a quiet mention some time in the next few months, a low key cancellation. Everybody's gonna blow it up of course it will be big news. Its sad to see. Note: I want to be wrong about the fate of the SM. I mean the steam machine was DOA anyway. Who’s going to pay $1000 for a pc with worse performance than a console at half the price? Reply
ezst036 LordVile said: I mean the steam machine was DOA anyway. Who’s going to pay $1000 for a pc with worse performance than a console at half the price? You're kind of proving my point, being totally reliant upon recentism. Most people believed the SM would be in the 7 or so range four months ago or whenever it was announced. At 700 the SM would've been wonderful. At $10 its dead, as you said, so why bring it to market anyways. Reply
LordVile ezst036 said: You're kind of proving my point, being totally reliant upon recentism. Most people believed the SM would be in the 7 or so range four months ago or whenever it was announced. At 700 the SM would've been wonderful. At $10 its dead, as you said, so why bring it to market anyways. No that’s what I’ve said from when it was announced. Valve said it would be price competitive with a SFF PC so I personally put that around 800-1200 with 1000 being the middle ground and said it was double the price required. It needs to be 500 or less to compete with console considering it can’t play the largest titles, is massively underpowered and competing as a console replacement rather than a PC replacement Reply
ezst036 Those numbers would have been too high four or more months ago. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/premium
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-deck-shortage-goes-global-valves-handheld-console-now-out-of-stock-in-europe-canada-the-us-and-japan#main
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