Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but what’s that cost compared to other pre-builts of equivalent spec? With how fucked everything is I’d wager the Steam Machine isn’t insanely priced compared to the other offerings.
If anything, it’s good to have a mass produced option from Steam. Eventually when I’m priced out of building big badass rigs I’ll look to Steam to provide a plug and play console experience.
I’m on my dream PC build, and at this point I don’t really care to build another one again. Console simplicity is great now that I can play most things 60-120 fps.
Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but what’s that cost compared to other pre-builts of equivalent spec? With how fucked everything is I’d wager the Steam Machine isn’t insanely priced compared to the other offerings.
If anything, it’s good to have a mass produced option from Steam. Eventually when I’m priced out of building big badass rigs I’ll look to Steam to provide a plug and play console experience.
I’m on my dream PC build, and at this point I don’t really care to build another one again. Console simplicity is great now that I can play most things 60-120 fps.
Less if you buy used.
Unfortunately, Valve can’t stick an eBay AMD 6800 + a DDR4 CPU in there; they gotta take the hit and buy everything new.
That actually might be a great sales driver.
Especially given that it runs Linux so you are saving a bunch on the operating system
Because OEM firms buy in bulk the cost reduction is usually a hundred or so.