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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by gwheel@lemmy.zip to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
 

$1050 for 512gb no controller

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I look forward to see this reviewed, 28 Compute Units on the GPU is below the Radeon RX 9060 XT that has 32.
Hopefully it isn't too limited in other aspects like RAM bandwidth.

But on the other hand an RX 9060 XT alone is almost half the price of this entire unit (EU price). So if it can perform about as fast as that, it seems like a pretty good deal.

Edit:

Saw the Gamers Nexus review, and I'm impressed with how small it is, it's also very power efficient. But those are not the things I'm looking for in a gaming system. And I am not impressed with the performance/price ratio.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Expensive, but cheaper than I expected. Even at its original price point it probably would have been more than I was willing to pay.

[–] exu@feditown.com 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't even realize they launched today until I saw the GamersNexus review

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a surprise drop, as far as I know. We knew it would be soon due to rumors.

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[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

I wan't to see it compared to some of the less costly mini pc's out there.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm sad (but not surprised) it's that expensive because I would have jumped on it at 700€, at the same time it encourages me to try and find individual parts for a custom build at the same price with greater theoretical performance

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess another Thinkpad then.

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Even at double the cost of a normal console, once you factor in the cost of games it comes out ahead. And hopefully the RAMpocalypse will end eventually.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's true anymore. Going all digital, even on Nintendo's eShop, most third party games are dirty cheap during sales which happen quite frequently. Most games I've looked at go on sale every other month. Of course, they are still stingy as fuck with their first party stuff.

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[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

They lost me at that price point, sadly. And I was really looking forward to this thing launching.

Valve makes damn good products, I'm rocking a Steam Deck and a SC in my personal collection, and love them both.

But my next PC upgrade was looking to be just that... a power upgrade. That was the main focus.

The small form factor, the excellent presentation, and the Valve quality that we all know this is going to have... they would have been nice. But right now I'm looking for equal or better than SM performance regardless of form factor, and I have my sights set on several possible options to get that, all of which are at least a couple of hundred dollars cheaper. Sorry Gabe.

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I really wanted one, but at this price point I can build a considerably more capable mATX PC. If I had a living room screen I might consider it, but as a pure gaming PC it doesn't work for me.

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[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago
[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

Sad, but expected

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

It's too expensive, it's just not a good idea for them to have released this. Honestly, they probably should have delayed it for 1-2 years or likely even cancelled it outright.

What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.

People don't want to pay $1050 USD for 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. People can't afford to be casually dropping money like that in this economy.

[–] okseby@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t think the target was the same people that would buy a link, the link is for someone that already has a pc. Meanwhile I think the steam machine was meant to compete with the consoles and gather new users into the steam ecosystem and then the price got hammered and took it out of that position.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.

The Steam Link was pretty much a dumb terminal for VNC. In what way does it need to have "more capable hardware?"

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The Steam Link did not have H265 supported in streaming settings IIRC.

The Steam Link was capped to 1080p at 60 FPS.

Those are some serious hardware limitations.

They could have easily refreshed it at the time.

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