Valve’s New VR Headset “Deckard” Will Launch in Late 2025 for $1,200, It’s Claimed

[Brian_B]

God help Valve if the frame costs $1200.

Like Linux, we're going to have to listen to "this is the year of VR" **** for the next 50 years.

Pretty sure Facebook killed VR when they bought Oculus and pushed out Palmer.

Not that I think Palmer could have sustained it, but Meta sure as hell wasn't gonna make it. And didn't.

 

[NTMBK]

A 7600 makes zero sense in a box launching at the end of this year, that's a two and a half year old card. My guess is that it's a placeholder card in developer kits to emulate something that wasn't available yet (either a chungus iGPU, or a 9600).

I was wrong, but I maintain that it's a really dumb decision from Valve. I was listening to a tech podcast describe this box as "maybe more powerful than a PS5 Pro", they're going to be in for a rude surprise when the benchmarks come out

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I was wrong, but I maintain that it's a really dumb decision from Valve. I was listening to a tech podcast describe this box as "maybe more powerful than a PS5 Pro", they're going to be in for a rude surprise when the benchmarks come out

-The hype around the Gabe Cube is getting to self destructive levels.

The specs are out there, it's going to be a nice SFF box for your TV to play some indie games or maybe stream from your much more powerful primary PC.

The specs are out there 28 RDNA3 CUs @ 110w is... Not a lot of horsepower, especially not for 4K which is what this thing will be plugged into more often than not.

 

[Brian_B]

I don't think I'm worried too much about the specs.

I mean, I am not expecting a machine that can run 4k 120FPS based on what's been published - so it won't be a top dollar high margin machine. Once you come down off that cliff, it's all about what the performance vs price comes in to be. Especially if AMD can keep moving forward with their upscaler tech, and Valve keeps integrating it.

Valve does have to be somewhat sensitive to what a regular PC (and the other consoles) would cost with similar performance. They were able to keep the Steam Deck in a good spot I thought.

The big advantage of this is - open software - if it's anything like the Steam Deck. You don't want to run Steam? No Problem. Boot to Linux. Install Windows. Do whatever you want on it. It really only lacks hardware upgradability over a regular PC

 

[Marees]

-The hype around the Gabe Cube is getting to self destructive levels.

The specs are out there, it's going to be a nice SFF box for your TV to play some indie games or maybe stream from your much more powerful primary PC.

The specs are out there 28 RDNA3 CUs @ 110w is... Not a lot of horsepower, especially not for 4K which is what this thing will be plugged into more often than not.

This is probably an useful 'stop-gap' PC

But not anything more than that.

It looks like AMD dumped their unsold inventory on Valve. But valve could still be left holding the bill because of the memory super cycle

My best bet is they sell the base 0.5 TB model at margin cost (maybe $600 without controller)
& make profit of the 2 TB model & accessories such as the controller

 

[NTMBK]

-The hype around the Gabe Cube is getting to self destructive levels.

The specs are out there, it's going to be a nice SFF box for your TV to play some indie games or maybe stream from your much more powerful primary PC.

The specs are out there 28 RDNA3 CUs @ 110w is... Not a lot of horsepower, especially not for 4K which is what this thing will be plugged into more often than not.

It's going to be lower shader performance than a base PS5, less memory accessible to the GPU than the PS5, none of the improved raytracing or ML upscaler tech from the PS5 Pro, no hardware accelerated decompression, and the overheads of going through DX12 (implemented by Proton) rather than console APIs. I don't care what the hype is, this thing is going to be slower than a 5 year old PS5.

At least it should get precompiled shaders downloaded from Valve's servers, like the Steam Deck, so at least shader stutter will be slightly better than on Windows...