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hotaru251 games in this category are required to run at a stable 30 FPS at 1080p resolution. The Steam Machine is almost as powerful as a PS5 with 28 RDNA 3 CUs imagine your baseline being 30fps at 1080p and comparing yourself to PS5….. like wow. Given the price of this thing (w/ nand and stuff its not goign to be under $800 if not a grand) its going to be massively overpriced waste. Reply
ezst036 Admin said: Valve details new game verification system for upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine Then Valve still fully intends to release the machine. No other reason to put this much work into it. Reply
ezst036 hotaru251 said: its going to be massively overpriced waste. Why do people act like PS6s are only going to be $299 at the release date next year? The world has not granted XBox and PS an immunity from RAM price hikes. It should be reasonable to state that a thousand dollar Steam Machine could be competitive against a thousand dollar PS6 or thousand dollar XBox. Reply
hotaru251 ezst036 said: Why do people act like PS6s are only going to be $299 at the release date next year? where did it come off as that? they are likely going to be 650-750. (and thats lowballing it as they wont sell at a loss anymore) Steams will not be as cost competitive becasue they wont have near the sales of a console and thus they need to make back R&D on a smaller amount thus a higher price tag. ezst036 said: It should be reasonable to state that a thousand dollar Steam Machine could be competitive against a thousand dollar PS6 or thousand dollar XBox. a console isnt running at just 1080p 30fps anymore. (heck most of the steam deck competitors stuff can do 1080p 30 already and cost less) fact is even consoles are goign to have a hard time selling if the "ai craze" doesn't stop as not enough people are going to buy em at those prices & w/o playerbase devs wont make many games as it wont be a large enough profit margin. Reply
thestryker hotaru251 said: imagine your baseline being 30fps at 1080p and comparing yourself to PS5….. like wow. As opposed to the consoles having 30 fps modes in most non-multiplayer games? Let's not pretend that the PS5 is much faster than the Steam Machine as the CPUs will likely be about the same and the GPU I'm guessing will be a bit worse, but it's hard to say with clock speed difference. I think Valve really did need to take a further step and have a performance option which was 60 fps, but I get why they have the baseline they do. hotaru251 said: Given the price of this thing (w/ nand and stuff its not goign to be under $800 if not a grand) its going to be massively overpriced waste. There was never any question as to whether or not it would be overpriced. The only question is how overpriced is it going to be and will people be willing to pay it. Reply
ezst036 hotaru251 said: thats lowballing it This. If you're going to highball the Steam Machine and lowball the PS, that's a cognitive disconnect with respect to any complaints that come after the fact. Highball them both or lowball them both. Please? It's a decent request. Reply
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