TerryLaze Notton said: When 16GB of DDR5 goes from US$60 to US$260. These were designed months ago and everything was sourced months ago and I doubt gabe cares about squeezing more money out of them, it's just a publicity gag for them to make steam more accessible to more people. Reply
hotaru251 and nobody should be shocked. its an arm machine, has an 8gb gpu (not replaceable), IO, custom case, etc. Add on valve tax and there was noway it wasnt gonna be over $900 Also reminder: don't buy one. It is e-waste as you can't upgrade its gpu and 8gb vram isnt enoguh for todays modern games meaning its longevity is dropping day its launched & resale of them is going to be nothing. Reply
Elrabin If you look at the same retailer, they're selling the 1tb OLED Steam Deck for $950 when to buy it in the US is $650 So, i'm still thinking it'll be $800-900 I don't know why people are looking at this listing like it's official Valve pricing, especially when it's a RESELLER in a country with massive markups. Reply
TerryLaze hotaru251 said: Also reminder: don't buy one. It is e-waste What are you talking about? First of all it's an x86 (x64) machine, second of all it will for ever be able to run whatever version of linux will be capable of running on it and you will forever be able to play all the games it is able to play. Yes, it's not a top end e-peen gaming system, it's not supposed to be, but whatever plays fine on it will be playing fine on it until it decomposes. Reply
ezst036 Valve picked the greatest of times at the same time the worst of times to introduce a brand new Steam Machine. The best of times: Microsoft's OS is quite possibly the most unpopular they've ever had. It's certainly the most unpopular in a generation. The worst of times: AI memory price hikes are going much much higher than can be recovered by skipping the Windows Tax. Reply
ezst036 hotaru251 said: and 8gb vram isnt enoguh for todays modern games meaning its longevity is dropping day its launched & resale of them is going to be nothing. The AI memory crunch is going to force video game companies to invest in some memory optimizations. There simply aren't enough users/gamers out there with 5090s to justify constantly dishing out the most disorganized code anymore. This AI memory crunch is going to cost us a generation. Reply
VizzieTheViz ezst036 said: The AI memory crunch is going to force video game companies to invest in some memory optimizations. There simply aren't enough users/gamers out there with 5090s to justify constantly dishing out the most disorganized code anymore. This AI memory crunch is going to cost us a generation. Well at least that’d be a benefit from AI: decently optimized games. I’m willing to forgo a generation of some hardware or another (don’t exactly know what you mean there) if it means games will be optimized at least a little again. Reply
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