They aren't making product to rule the hardware market. They are making product to prove a market and have more people buying steam games and paying them their 30% per title.
I'm expecting launch price to be around 550 like said above, with it coming bundled with about 100 dollars in gaming software for launch. Then after the software is done if sell through isn't quite right they will drop the price to 500 or 499. But that's just me.
I've never been into the hand held gaming thing. Brought my wife's OLED Nintendo switch with me on a business trip. Played it a few hours... over all it was nice to have but I wouldn't want it as a primary device.
Stuff like this tries to be all things... that isn't for me yet. At...
That's the whole point. If they sell it without a hardware loss... Steam makes them JUST as much money on a windows PC as it does on a Steam box of pick your flavor. There's no difference to them in the hardware you play on.
They are NOT selling a device to be an ecosystem. The...
@Tyler-98-W68 every time someone tries to give you numbers you simply dont accept them as valid. Its a matter of perception at this point. And you are the small fry in tje perception of performance.
You can turn all of that off. I think the issue is for personal consumers is non tinkers are getting home systems and tablets and phones and largely dont care so the get the ads and such. While us tinkers are frustrated by the bloat.
And if you're building a 9800x3d and looking at a 5070ti OR a 5080 video card I would say stick with the higher end CPU and spend the money, but wait on ram. Why... because you want to draw out the performance of the video card.
We're talking a 400 dollar price difference on a DDR5 kit of...
If it walks like a gorilla... and talks like a gorilla...
It's not about Intel or AMD... It's just saying that with the amount you are over paying on ram right now you could go up a tier in video card and keep the same ram once prices drop back down.
I wouldn't have ANYONE build a PC...