At 750, its perfection.
Yeah, I bought my current pc for that price in 2018. The steam machine is a step up in every department and comes preset to play games. At that price I’d get one for each member of my family so we could game together.
I’ll turn to burgling data centers before I turn to steaming my pc.
before I turn to steaming my pc.
Typo?
Yes.
There’s good sport in burgling
In light of recent events and due to the price of steam machines I am now officially evil.
You haven’t lived if you haven’t had a good burgle
Yeah at 750 I’d buy one for my living room instead of an extra long hdmi cable from my gaming pc to the TV
To anyone that gives money to the ai companies:
Fuck You.
Considering they lose money on every prompt, it’s fuck them, not me
Ah yes, the classic blame consumers for big business decisions.
Could push for government regulation/oversight or even developmental efforts to relieve the supply constraints.
Nah consumer bad 😠
Consumers support the Ai companies and are responsible for the profitable business model. If you pay for Ai tools, then you are responsible for the shortage of RAM too.
but the business model isn’t profitable…
“AI” companies are bleeding money at an ungodly rate. The only people making money ARE the hardware vendors. But also fuck anyone supporting this bubble by using LLMs as a replacement for just fucking thinking.
That would have been awesome ):
Help me out, is “it’s small” the only reason to get this if you have a microcenter near you? Seems one could do much better with a mediumish SFF case
Gamers Nexus says it’s about $70 more than self-built. (for the 512GB model)
So, you’re paying $70 for a small form factor PC in a custom case, with SteamOS. Another thing is that you can choose to buy a Steam Controller for $20 less than buying the controller by itself and you also don’t have to wait in the pre-order line for the standalone controller (which is currently extended into 2027).
The hardware shortage makes it not a great time to buy a gaming PC, but in the current market it’s priced competitively and you get to jump the line buying a Steam Controller as well.
I’m not in the market for the Steam Machine, but if I was, $1100 Cdn might be reasonable for this offering, I’d consider it.
Still hoping we can do better on pricing for the frame, that’s what I really want but I’ll wait a year if the launch prices are over $1000 Cdn ($700US)
I wonder if they sell just the case. That’s what I really want. That front plate screen is dope as fuck. Too bad what I have rn wouldn’t fit in it. 😬
Though I am also not sure about its actual dimensions (they have that info somewhere, right?) It might be slightly too tall to put it on the shelf I want to so it would end up in the same place my PC is right now: Behind the TV where I can’t see it. 😩
Personally I wouldn’t buy it for “750”, because 750 in the US means more like 1000 in the EU. Now, if it was 750 in the EU - fantastic.
What? In the US it currently costs 1049$, in the EU 1039€. If it was 750$ it would also be around the same price in Euro
Well, my bad for generalizing. Looks like prices are different in various EU countries.
In my country the cheapest model is about $1200 USD (vs $1049 USD), while the most expensive one is over $1600 USD (vs $1349 USD). Absolutely ridiculous prices, but I’m glad to hear some countries have slightly better ones.
EU tends to include taxes in the sticker price, the US doesn’t.
Sounds like a scam. So the 1350 is in reality closer to the 1600 from my country?
Closer to like 1450 here. We tend to have about 7-10% sales tax
Gamers finding excuses for their favorite billionaire being a capitalist dick by blaming another capitalist dick.
Not sure what you’re getting at, here. Are you expecting Steam to sell these at a loss (or even just break-even) out of the goodness of their hearts or something?
And then have scalpers resell at a tidy profit because they’re selling the hardware for less than the current market rates, for that matter…
I’m getting at the fact that nobody from steam ever said it was originally priced at 750, but “gamers” are saying so because “Gab is a good billionaire”. Whatever he does, he will always get his ass kissed because he runs a “convenient” store front.
Steam is a disgusting business that that made hundred of millions by promothing gambling for kids, has sub 300 employees while making record profits year after year. Literately one of the most profitable company in the world, that gets 30% on each fucking game sold (blablabla industry standard bullshit, epic takes 12% btw).
So yeah, if you part of the people that defends that type of business, you’re just another one of capitalism’s little bitch is what I’m getting at.
“Gabe is a good billionaire” is a possible reason to make that claim. The other is to remind people to be mad at the datacentres gobbling up all the hardware. The latter seems to be how everyone is interpreting it based on the other comment chains under this post.
Yeah, but that’s not their fault, it’s the capitalist system as it’s been twisted by neoliberal economic theory.
What we need are rational marginal tax rates (80%+ on income over $10 MM/year) and no significant capital gains exemptions (say, 50% inclusion on first $10K capital gains, 65% on next $40K, and 100% inclusion advice $50K). Add a 1% wealth tax on all wealth above $10 MM, 2% above $100 MM, and 3% on wealth above $1 B, then billionaires aren’t nearly as much of a problem any more.
The US started its death spiral in the 1976 with Buckley v. Valeo. I don’t see how they can reverse course, now, but that was the start of the end.
But there is a supply crisis? What?
You’re right, I repent and will be contributing to Gabe’s next 500 million yacht. I hear they actually wanted to sell the steam machine for 20$ but had to bump the price because of some greedy practice by other businesses.
Oh shit check out this guy he is so edgy
Yeah, you’re the one reel rebels defending a billionaire that screws children and devs. Open wide, daddy Gabe’s gotta take a dump. Loser.
Yawn
You’re not like the other gamers. You’re unique and special. There might be someone in the world who doesn’t know that about you, so you better go correct them!
The funny part is that of all time I point things that are wrong with steam, none of you losers have ever even tried to address those. Your tongues must hurt from licking that much ass.
Yes… Actually billionaires and capitalist corrupt dicks are exactly who are to blame. But also Americans who voted for this over the last 20-50 years hold blame too. And probably some EU for not holding Americans accountable with stronger resistance… You know what. The whole planet is getting exactly what it deserves.
