Steam Deals and Digital Sales
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Araxen
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$1049 for the base Steam Machine model. $1428 for the 2TB model
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Not sure why we would buy this over a regular pc... other than play pc games on your couch in the living room... but then just get a steam deck...
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That's 1k in US dollars right? That's kinda the expected price especially nowadays with how expensive everything is. But yeah you could get a better PC for that price, not in that size though. I think it kinda just got fucked with the release timing, although even without it I think they were likely aiming for 800 or somewhere around that before memory tripled in price.
Hekotat
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SteamOS will make or break this. Curious to see a deep dive on the performance side of things, have they even shown it off yet? I honestly don't follow all of this but it has me intrigued.
darkmiasma
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Might be a fun project to install it on a spare drive. Seems to be reasonably possible if you have amd stuff now.
Kirun
Buzzfeed Editor
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16GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM?
LMAO. This thing is DOA in 2026.
EDIT: Holy shit, some of these are being shipped with a SINGLE 16GB stick.
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I don't even see how this Steam Machine could play new games at 4k to the level of a ps5 etc. I feel like that is the expectation most people would have that would look at buying it. It would probably be a fine 1080 and older game system. Most people these days that would buy that are going to hook it up to a 4k TV I'm sure and I just don't see how it could possibly be competitive at this price point.
I was thinking about buying the Steam Frame when it came out but with prices going the way they are, man idk if it's going to be at a price I'm willing to pay. I'm just glad I bought a steamdeck right before the prices jumped, even if I haven't gotten around to using it yet.
I was thinking about buying the Steam Frame when it came out but with prices going the way they are, man idk if it's going to be at a price I'm willing to pay. I'm just glad I bought a steamdeck right before the prices jumped, even if I haven't gotten around to using it yet.
Hekotat
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Have we even seen what SteamOS can do yet? Yall like to jump straight to conclusions before all the info is out.
Its supposed to power the steamframe, that wouldn't be possible at all I don't think without some kind of software advancement up their sleeve. Given the current specs.
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Bold that you think that that much memory won't cost more than the entire system this time next year ;p