Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• warm@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Machine will apparently be about the price of "an entry level PC".

  The Frame will "not cost more than the Index".

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  • croizat@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not more than the index is a low bar considering it’s about the most expensive of the mainstream headsets

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    • Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Literally every VR headset released this year is over 1k. Only meta (and now valve) care about budget headsets

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      • croizat@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The only ones that released this year are enthusiast premium brands, unless I’m missing any. Last year had the quest and the HTC which I’ll admit I was wrong about, I thought it was lower than exactly 1k

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      True, but that's all we got right now. We have to wait and see.

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• magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  From what I understand the Steam Machine performance is somewhere between Series S and Series X. I don’t think it will cost more than a Series X.

  Maybe 600.

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• kurcatovium@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For the cube I expect 1k USD minimum.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t see that being the case, it’s relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.

    Seems to me like they’re targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.

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    • anzo@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I was very surprised to see the only upgrade is a generous storage from 512 GiB to 2 TiB… I would rather build my own PC, spend a little extra, cover other needs I have (zfs pool for videos), and get a good GPU that I can always replace for a newer one in a few years… But of course, that’s just me. That new GPU could easily cost as much as the Steam Machine itself, hehe. Of course, it would be way more powerful…

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      • bollybing@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you’re comfortable building your own PC, its probably always going to be the best option for you because you can get exactly what you want and skip the stuff you don’t want and you don’t pay the markup for prebuilts.

        Steam machine is targeted at people who don’t want to build their own system but are interested in the bigger and cheaper game libraries on PC and maybe some of the additional functionality and flexibility you get over a console.

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    • kurcatovium@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for lower end system, something I could by for my kids. But given the price of other consoles, I’m a bit nervous about the final price, hence I mentally prepare myself for 1k USD so I can be (hopefully) pleasantly surprised.

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