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Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” pricing that leads to more revenue from improved Steam software sales. In a new interview with YouTube channel Skill Up, though, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais ruled out that kind of console-style pricing model, saying that the Steam Machine will be “more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market.”

Griffais said the AMD Zen 4 CPU and RDNA3 GPU in the Steam Machine were designed to outperform the bottom 70 percent of machines that opt-in to Valve’s regular hardware survey. And Steam Machine owners should expect to pay roughly what they would for desktop hardware with similar specs, he added.

“If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at,” Griffais said.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean I get where you are coming from because most people are like Steam = PC = complicated AF, but PlayStation\Xbox\Nintendo = not PC = easy and its only reinforced by "influencers" that are just pushing corporate crap to consumers for comisión \ free shit.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This. Unless you're modding, PC gaming isn't complicated. Every game nowadays automatically picks out options based on your hardware specs. While tuning options are there, they're not required

[–] gila@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

Generally, games cannot tell what the performance bottleneck in your configuration is, especially taking into account things like upscaling or playing at scaled res. This is pretty significant for mid-range configurations. That people want plug and play doesn't mean they're happy for games not to take full advantage of their hardware.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And that includes Linux gaming