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Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Except a PS5 Pro is $1100CAD and this is $1500CAD ($2000CAD if you match storage with the PS5 Pro, which is 2TB.) That is a huge jump. This is too underpowered for enthusiasts, and too expensive for console only gamers. Early indication is that it’s also underpowered vs a PS5 Pro, so I think it’s underpowered even for console gamers.

I know why they have the price pressure they do. But I can’t say I’m not wildly disappointed. This had the potential to end the console market entirely and now it’s looking like another also ran.

I was almost definitely going to buy this. At this price vs performance, I don’t think I’ll even put my name on the list. Much of this is out of Valve’s hands, but maybe they should have just scrapped it until pricing is better. This might be worse than nothing.

One thing I will say is I love the form factor. If was looking to build a living room PC this would be a serious contender because the design is great. But it’s just not enough to pay $1500 for a PC that matches the spec of my $800 PS5.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree. their best play here would have likely been to just delay release until the hardware market stabilized. its going to flop at it's current pricing.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Except there's ongoing costs to have manufacturing equipment and warehouse stock sitting around doing nothing. Plus they likely had minimum quantity manufacturing contracts signed

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If Valve decided to sign hardware contracts at the prices that are forcing them to do this, that's on them. I'm saying they shouldn't have done that in the first place. The project should have been held off until it stabilized.

clarification: There is no way they didn't have some form of forecasting on how much they would be paying per unit prior to signing said contracts. I agree with you, they probably have contracts in place now, but there's no way they agreed to these contracts without knowing the price of hardware they ate buying. It's not like they can sign a contract, and then two months later, AMD can be like, hey, by the way, you know that hardware market issue we have? Yeah, so that agreed upon rate you're gonna have. We're adding $300/p unit to it. Usually it's a I will buy X amount of units at Y cost over Z period, and then they renew/negotiate the contract as needed.