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Steam Hardware

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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who've opted in as a sample. It's anything but representative of all 154 million active users, meaning the statistic above isn't an absolute.

Does the author know how *survey sample sizes work?

Do I?

Is it because it's opt in or opt out?

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[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 hours ago (7 children)

If it's cheaper than the top 30% I'll think about it. I haven't had a gaming capable PC in a long while and I HAVE wanted one, but I'm not paying $1000 for it

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

Approximate same power mini-pc - Minisforum HX99G, when being sold (discontinued as of today) used to be at a price around $800. Sometimes it was found to be sold at discount price of $700.

I want to believe that Steam Machines will be lower than that due to brand name recognition and mass production.

[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

If it's not cheaper than a PS5 I don't think it's gonna catch on unfortunately. Xbox is obviously defunct by now but the ps has much much more wide ranging awareness than Steam. And to compete with that they'll need more than "it's twice as expensive but a little prettier" to the layman.

On my Linux box or steam deck I can play latest cuttongbedge games, random bullshit going back yo the 70s, and any indie game off itch.io

It's got a pretty good back catalog advantage.

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