Comment on Valve quietly tweaked the Steam Machine details removing "4K gaming at 60 FPS"
snooggums@piefed.world 4 days ago
Marketing the new Steam Machine for 4K at 60FPS was a bit silly really - because there’s very few titles it’s likely to ever be able to hit with the specifications.
The vast majority of titles on steam that are 5+ years old should hit that easily, if they have a 4k option I guess. It will be the newer AAA titles with higher settings that won’t. The new wording is more accurate, although I hate ‘up to’ in any kind of marketing because it was abused so much.
Another change recently - the order emails. We were expecting Valve to send out emails on June 25th which is what they said in the original announcement, to confirm if you have a reservation or if you’re on a waiting list. That didn’t happen.
When I joined the list I did so because it said emails would go out starting on June 29th, which gave me time to have funds available if I was lucky enough to be first in line. The 25th was the sign ip closing date.
mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I paid attention to that and my page when I signed up said that sign-ups closed and the queue randomization began at 10am Pacific, and the email would be sent when the queue randomization concluded, then the emails for people who made it onto the launch batch queue would begin receiving emails on the 29th. At 9:47am Pacific on the 26th I received the email saying I was in queue and would receive the email to purchase when my queue spot was reached. Just under 24 hours seems a pretty reasonable time for randomization and sending out the emails, especially given the already announced 3 days before the purchase emails even go out