It'll sell one or two million at most.
I'm just trying to picture the demographic of people that'd actually buy this.
It has to be below $400. Above $400 and it's directly competing with the PS5. Your average normie does not care about the benefits of a PC if it's in the same price range as a more powerful home console.
Yeah. I don't see it being successful at all unless it's a budget machine. Steam is popular among people who already own a PC. Steamdeck was successful because it was a way to play your PC library on the go. (Even if it was relatively weak)
The days of any console that's not ancient hardware (like Switch 2) costing that much are over.
And that's why it won't compete. The people looking to buy something in the $500-600 range are mainly people who can't afford a PC. Most normies are gonna see the price and specs of the steam machine and opt for a PS6/5.
it isn't a niche market.
RAM isn't soldered and storage can be changed and upgraded, CPU/GPU cannot. There won't be much need to upgrade though, as there's supposed to be a 2TB storage option and 16GB RAM should be more than enough for this level of performance.
They don't have a choice. A machine for playing games that's under $500 is going to be weak and if you want to play low-quality crap, there's your phone. Consoles are getting phased out.
The vr looks good
What a video game blackpill. I or my family (when I was a kid) have never in my life had the finances to get a gaming pc so I've always had to settle for consoles. At this rate I think I'm just gonna stick with my PS4 (underrated video game generation) for the rest of my life.
it might be good if its optimized for older games
Probably casuals that would otherwise be buying a PS5 or xbox but they're fed up with game prices and don't know how to use pcs
you're exaggerating
On paper it should be around PS5/XBSX however since it's a dogshit mobile chip that is inside tiny box it will be heavely downclocked and cucked due thermals. Mobile dogshit RDNA3 rx chip instead of actually usable RDNA4. So no good FSR4 either you will only have ultra blurry FSR2/3
If it's more than $450-500 it's DOA. And since it's Valve i can see those retards selling that outdated brick for $700 they even said they will price it as a pc lmao. I can buy actual prebuilt pc for $750 with much better gpu or even ps5 pro with actual amazing gpu. They have lost their mind after releasing first hardware which was dogshit steam controller that i hated and sold for 8x i paid for to some Valve fanboy
It will be ultra niche product only bought by normies that want to move to pc but are too pussy to go to the store and ask for prebuilt pc or actually use their brainrotten cells and build pc on their own from parts. My rx 5700 xt is already too weak and they want to inject similar dated gpu into a product to be released in 2026 this is just ridiculous. What a great way to greet new PC players with mid settings and fps drops below 60... And they said 4k 120fps Yeah my fucking ass.
He is right. Power around PS5/Xbsx is entry gaming performance. It's bare minimum you need to have to play new games. Anything below that = drops to 30fps.
It won't be as Valve ignores updating old games (3rd party) and just leave them to rot you need to find mods to fix them. Steam is such a joke when compared to Gog.
So what if you don't want to play new games then? Buy second hand?
Then you don't need to buy anything. As you will be probably already have hardware that can play old games. Unless you want to emulate games then you need powerful cpu, and 6core of Steam Machine is not enough for PS3 emulation especially with how downclocked it will be. This device is for practically for nobody.
Well true that.
It will only benefit linux and not give anything to windows gamers. Well maybe RPCS3 team will finally optimize their dogshit emulator for 6 core cpus but it's a pipe dream they seem to be chasing arm64 support like dumbasses for no damn reason.
I want to take hammer and smash their stupid heads
and normies still champion them as muh saviours of gaming
windows is dead t minus 6-7 years
year of linux will come any time soon
i don't know what the fuck you are talking about jesse. torrenting is as easy as clicking a download button
You also like GOG more? Me too.
