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artk2219 It sounds like so far so good, I guess we will see how pricing and the launch goes. I don't love the hardware, but i guess thats not really all that you are paying for. Reply
LordVile artk2219 said: It sounds like so far so good, I guess we will see how pricing and the launch goes. I don't love the hardware, but i guess thats not really all that you are paying for. Rumour is about a grand which is about double what it needs to be. I’m part of the small group of people this product makes sense for as someone who has a PC and would like to play some of the more couch friendly ones on the big TV without having to buy them again for the Xbox. However at double the price of my XSX, when I bought it, with what looks like less performance, no blu ray drive or space to install one (which I get isn’t a big deal for some people but I have a lot of physical media still) and no upgrade ability I’m going to have to pass. Like this is a secondary machine, no one is going to buy this as their primary system and no one is going to give up a much cheaper console for it. You might as well build a SFF PC for much cheaper Reply
TerryLaze LordVile said: I’m part of the small group of people this product makes sense for as someone who has a PC and would like to play some of the more couch friendly ones on the big TV without having to buy them again for the Xbox. No you aren't, you already have a PC, you can get any piece of crap pc/laptop and use the already existing steam stream function (remote play) to play steam games on your main PC and stream them to the crap one. The steam machine will be for people that want to play games directly on that hardware. Reply
Penzi ”Valve has said that developers don’t need to worry about getting the Steam Machine Verified badge on their titles, confirming that there will be "fewer constraints" for developers compared to Steam Deck Verification, given its more potent hardware” Umm… how about having a keyboard and mouse likely (and easily) attached? And having higher, and thus more choice in, resolutions? Despite it being touted as a gaming PC console it can be used as a straight up gaming PC. This is also possible with the Steam Deck but requires tinkering and a dock, the absence of which is required for “Steam Deck Verified”. There are no tiny details in games that make touch difficult which will impact a system with mouse and keyboard. They’ll also be way larger than on the Deck screen. Anyhow, that’s just a knee jerk reaction to what I read. I’m sure I’m leaving a ton of low hanging fruit on the table (that’s how that proverb goes, right?) Regardless, a Steam Machine is likely to fall into my possession in the future, although probably not a first generation model. Doubt this present iteration outperforms my NUC by enough to be worth paying for. But once it does… (well, I’ll be toying with SteamOS on said NUC sometime this year regardless) Reply
LordVile TerryLaze said: No you aren't, you already have a PC, you can get any piece of crap pc/laptop and use the already existing steam stream function (remote play) to play steam games on your main PC and stream them to the crap one. Aside from remote play being pretty much unusable you’d be correct which is why I have an Xbox under the TV rather than a PC or using my Apple TV to stream. TerryLaze said: The steam machine will be for people that want to play games directly on that hardware. Which is what I said however unless it’s price competitive vs a console why would anyone buy one? Why would you pay 2x the price for inferior hardware than cannot play the most popular releases of the year when you could just buy a PS5 or a PS5 Pro if you really want to light your wallet on fire Reply
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