i still added myself to the raffle queue. even thou the price is steep, I still see it as an option in the diy PC building landscape. it’s a PC, free from the console ecosystem, I can install any os I want, games from my gog library, emulate freely, all in a tiny quiet box.

i think this price is not what they intended, and in the bigger picture valve is tiny compared to console manufacturers, they can’t get deals in hardware like they can.

I also think valve could sell as option a version with no storage and memory, lower price, it would fit the diy/options community like a glove

Damn. I can’t imagine this is what they wanted to price it at, I’m very sad to say it is a competitive price in this insane market…

I’m still tempted at this price. It’s about the same as a similarly specced custom build but will have much lower running costs.

Ideally I’d just use Sunshine and Moonlight to play in my living room but the colours are always washed out whenever I try.

Just compared the storage price jump to the current iPad Pro.

512gb to 2tb Steam Machine + £270 (£90 per 512gb) 512gb to 2tb iPad Pro + £800 (£267 per 512gb)

That’s straight up robbery from Apple.

Funny, cause whilst its very pricey, i spent more than this on my phone. And most flagship phones cost about the lower end of this. But because i get my phone essentially interest free over a 4 year contract i somehow justify the cost without thinking too much about the fact that i spent 1500 quid on a small slab of glass and metal.

Maybe i need to rethink my grasp on the concept of money.

Wondering how it’d benchmark against https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Nano-Pro-Gen14-AMD.tuxedo in an even smaller form factor and similar price range for specs.

Base price seems fair for a PS5 form factor PC, if you want that (I do). But I was hoping to grab the 2TB model… that’s making me reconsider.

Apparently 2TB hard drives are already pricey anyway, but maybe I’ll try to be careful and uninstall games more, like with the Deck? 512GB is already mostly full with emulation and games I want available on hand though…

It could or should have been around 700-800. We must be thankful AI companies that it is how it is now.

Yes but when eill we get the frame’s price

I’m still getting one but this is clearly a luxury item now rather than a competitive console. Sucks to be Valve here, the timing really worked against them.

I just really hope the VR headset is not much worse than this as I just want to play No Man’s Sky on linux VR.

The sad part is that Valve really did price all the parts for pretty much as low as they could go:

quite a deal, as a 262 year old unc, steam machines back in my day took nearly $2000 to make

Valve can call me when it makes products I can actually afford on a janitor’s salary

Sadly thats probably a competitive price for a console now.

This makes me wonder about the next time we have to buy new phones …