$1130 CAD for the 512gb model.
I built my gaming desktop for that price and it has a 4070 super.
Next word generating companies have literally made personal computing unaffordable for the next decade (at least).
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919,00€ for OLED 1TB model in Germany.
I have no hopes for Steam Machine price now...
SM is going to cost like 1000+ isn't it....
At this point, try closer to $1200-$1500, and that's for the BASE model.
We so cooked
SM?
Steam Machine
I guess I'm not buying the steam machine. I guess buying technology is an investment now.
All this for stupid fucking anime profile pics
Oof I mean I'm glad they are back in stock again but that stings. I do see valve being the only company that would lower them as soon as they are able though. Public shareholders wouldn't let them if they were public.
Nah, that's not true. All of these companies would absolutely love to charge less for the console up front so that they can get recurring payments out of you elsewhere. It was a regular occurrence for decades that console prices would drop dramatically over time.
Less of an issue with Valve. They don't have as much of a need for a hardware loss leader since they earn from Steam regardless of which hardware it's running on.
Also, by virtue of the fact that the Deck and Steam Machine are de-facto PCs, if they made those products loss-leaders, they would get bought up to use for non-gaming purposes and reduce availability for their intended audience. The same thing happened to the PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
As I understand it, none of the consoles are loss leading these days.
If they structure their supplier contracts anything like the auto industry does, that would only be because they are on the back end of the product's production lifecycle.
I think they lost the appetite for loss leading around the time the PS4 and Xbox One came out. I have no insider information, but this is what I tend to hear from those that do. Nintendo famously doesn't loss lead, and that's a long standing policy, but the latest word on Switch 2 is that their price increase keeps them profitable but with smaller margins than they had when it initially launched.
Holy fuck. How is it even competitive at this price?
The RAM and SSD have gotten that much more expensive to source. Anyone who sells a product with similar components either raises their price, or takes a loss.
Even laggy crap DDR4 RAM is at almost $6/GB; DDR5 (like the Deck uses) is double that. The absolute cheapest appropriate-sized 512GB M.2 drive is $100, from a no-name brand. The whole market has gone down the tubes thanks to AI companies buying up absolutely everything.
It isn't.
This timeline sucks.
Holy hell what a jump! Yeesh, I’m glad I got one in January, but there’s no way I’d be paying 1k for it.
Unfortunately, given the current economy, its not suprising. With how much prices have risen, the old pricing competed with and often beat out even used desktops.
I will never buy a new system again.
It'll be a few years of pain, but once the bubble pops, we can start to return to normalcy. Take good care of the hardware you have in the meantime.
I don't want to crush people's optimism (I'm also envious of your viewpoint), but what makes you think any of this will pop and return to normalcy?
We're in this place because AI companies are buying up all the supply, and in order to do that, they have to pay higher than market rates to buy what's left of the supply available. That means their break-even point is now higher than it would be in a rational economy, and they're already not profitable. That's a bubble. It doesn't matter if it's tulip bulbs, a business with "dot com" on the end of its name, or a home that no one lives in; if you're expecting to make money off of the next greater fool, it will pop.
But let's say it doesn't. The other way to meet the supply-demand curve and make money off of consumers like you and I who want to buy hardware at prices that we can afford is to increase production so that there's more supply. If this is the new normal (it's not), the component producers can increase their manufacturing capacity, and in a handful of years (pessimistically about a decade to build those sorts of factories, which would be brutal if true), they'll have enough throughput to meet everyone's demand. And I don't think those producers are looking to scale up because they also don't believe this is the new normal. If they believed that, then they're leaving future profits on the table by not scaling up production to meet demand.
Oof I can't recommend a new one to anyone at that price. Fortunately there's still a lot of used ones around where I live, but that's a big old yikes.
I wish I could muster the ability to give a fuck at this point. Between trumps bolocks and the us ai industry fucking everyone over.
Im kinda of you brought this on yourselves at this point
Sure, but if the price is going up here, it's the latest symptom of prices going up everywhere for this hobby.
Yeh and that's why im fucking pissed. The rest of the world is getting shit because of American internal bolocks
AI might be a problem for this market with or without the US, but tariffs and a war with Iran that drives up oil prices (and therefore plastic and electronics manufacturing) sure is our fault.
Your right it might. But it isn't its a problem because sam altman et al are buying stuff that hasnt been made yet for that datacenters that haven't been built yet egged on by a body that's supposed to keep these assholes in check.