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This is for people who don't have a nice and powerful desktop.
They didn't stop development of the link explicitly for people like you?
The steam link software is still being updated. It’s also open to a wider range of devices.
My wife uses it with our Apple TV and the gaming PCs on a different floor. Works flawlessly even at 4k over WiFi.
Yes I said that. I am glad it works for you I haven't used it for Apply TV but I do use it from my phone, and on my Deck to play Windows games that are incompatible.
Works great for both
You can build a significantly more powerful desktop that is also upgradable for less than this. This price renders it absolutely useless and no one should buy it.
I don’t think you can if you take into account the form factor, noise and thermals.
I built my mini itx before this silliness and it was a good 20% more expensive on account of no space and specific components
Intel NUCs have existed for like a decade at this point.
And how many compare with gaming performance at that price point point?
I don’t know of a single one that can match it.
Also I’d say that’s moving the goalposts from building a cheaper one, to buying a shittier one
I'm convinced hardly anybody on Lemmy has a functioning theory of mind.
I couldn’t put a finger on it for the longest time, thank you for verbalizing it. It really does read like “me” and there’s all there is. A universe of one
I feel seen :3
Obviously, no shit. I never meant to imply that this was targeted at me. But I know multiple people who already have a high end computer who would also like this for their living room.
If it was $600 like I'd originally hoped I'd be interested. I wasn't going to get one day 1, but I'd have picked one up once they're consistently in stock. But $1000 for mid specs is rough for anyone. Just like the steam controller, Valve has made another hyper niche device.
The price for everything went up. That "mix spec" PC you were going to build? That went up by the same amount, if not more by the time this is all over
You're still paying the premium for getting a low power parts in a small form factor. At half the price it's a lot easier to justify to someone who doesn't really care. But at almost twice the price that FPS per dollar difference is a lot higher.
This random ass power spec computer is going to kick the shit out of the steam machine. Again if size isn't a concern. And I'm sure actual oems have smaller pcs with less compromised performance.
Why? High end computers can also go in the living room. You can also simply stream your high end computer to other devices if you don't want to do that, or put HDMI cables in the walls.
Going from a high end gaming PC to this, which struggles to do 720p/30fps in AAA games, would be a nightmare.