Valve's NEW Steam Machine...

[DrezKill]

Valve's new Steam Machine, a new controller, and also new VR shiznit:

• https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
• https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware
• https://www.eurogamer.net/tech-valv...us-steam-machine-and-steam-controller-revival
• https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-everything-we-know-about-valves-new-console
• https://www.eurogamer.net/tech-stea...owerful-customisable-mini-pc-for-couch-gaming
• https://www.eurogamer.net/tech-stea...mepad-that-also-packs-in-traditional-controls
• https://www.eurogamer.net/tech-stea...alone-vr-headset-that-runs-steam-games-on-arm

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Prices will determine everything.

Controller for ~$50, Machine for $400, Frame for $300?

Sold.

 

[Brian_B]

I gotta admit

Even though I know it won’t have the same level of horsepower… this is a very compelling option versus building another gaming-compatible PC

Maybe it won’t play with every option cranked to 11, but “don’t need to fiddle with it” console-like compatibly is starting to look very compelling - especially after dealing with Win10/11 crap for so long.

It is one nice thing about the Steam Deck - it operates a lot like a console…. But if you want to dig in, the option to boot to a Linux desktop and drop to root level is there.

Especially when GPUs alone will probably cost about as much as the entire Steam Machine likely.

 

[Skillz]

Prices will determine everything.

Controller for ~$50, Machine for $400, Frame for $300?

Sold.

Ain't no way the Frame is going to be $300.

 

[Brian_B]

Ain't no way the Frame is going to be $300.

Yeah, I think these are gonna be priced a bit more than I'd like, but that's kinda the way everything is priced since Covid came and went anymore.

Seems most folks are guessing around $600-1k for the Steam Box (depending on SSD size and such), and the Frame going for anywhere from $500 to $1k, Those prices make them... not instant purchases or impulse buys for me, to say the least.

If they are close to the prices @GodisanAtheist says, then yeah, they will fly off the shelves. And while I think Valve could afford to take that loss, they wouldn't do that for long - gotta sell a lot of games on Steam on those platforms to make up the difference, and the big console makers have moved away from letting their hardware be big loss leaders anymore.

 

[Marees]

For reference, for $700, you can either buy a laptop with slightly better GPU (& additional display) or an NUC with much more powerful 9060xt 8gb GPU (Plus $80 for 16gb upgrade)

https://www.newegg.com/msi-thin-a15-15-6-geforce-rtx-4060-laptop-gpu-amd-ryzen-5-7535hs-16gb-memory-512-gb-nvme-ssd/p/N82E16834156873

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kMpbqH

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Ain't no way the Frame is going to be $300.

-Meta has basically capped the mass market pricing for SOC headsets at $400.

Unless you really hate the idea of a Meta account, you already own a very functional $400 Quest 3 and have no reason to buy a Frame, but VR is already an ultra niche and just doing the same thing again (for more money) is not really a winning proposition.