The Gabe box is more laptop-esque than PC really. The Steam Machine GPU is closer to a 7600m as both use (28cu) vs the desktop 7600(32cu).
Afaik the CPU is only 2 full zen4 cores and 4 zen4c, which would also save on cost. But, honestly I don’t remember where I read that so don’t take the CPU part as fact. If I find the source I’ll link it later
Still, my point was about the price guess that the other guy made. Valve was very clear that it would be priced as a PC and not a console, consoles are around the 500 mark, so it would be at least 700 otherwise they would have mentioned aggressive pricing or something.
Valve was very clear that it would be priced as a PC and not a console
Valve hasn’t been clear about the price at all though. That could simple mean it won’t be sold at a loss like console have historically been.
Tom from Moore’s Law estimated the cost to build the steam machine at $425 and the steam deck at around $300. If the Steam Machine is sold for the save $100 profit that’s a total of $525.
Yeah I’m thinking that it’ll be around $500 to $600 for the base model and maybe $550 to $650 for the two terabyte model. After all its upgradable so there’s not really any point them trying to price gouge anyone on the storage.
The general consensus I’ve seen from people is that it will be sub 1K simply because they know it has to be in order to be profitable. The only people who think it’s going to be over 1k seem to be people who don’t actually know that it’s not really a super powerful system, they advertised it as being seven times more powerful than the steam deck, but the steam deck itself is not exactly a powerhouse in fact the switch 2 is more powerful.
You’re paying for the fact that it’s tiny, the fact that it’s not a window system, and for the convenience of just being able to throw some money at someone and have a fairly decent gaming system without having to mock about in the weeds, because a lot of people don’t like that aspect of PC building.
The Gabe box is more laptop-esque than PC really. The Steam Machine GPU is closer to a 7600m as both use (28cu) vs the desktop 7600(32cu).
Afaik the CPU is only 2 full zen4 cores and 4 zen4c, which would also save on cost. But, honestly I don’t remember where I read that so don’t take the CPU part as fact. If I find the source I’ll link it later
Still, my point was about the price guess that the other guy made. Valve was very clear that it would be priced as a PC and not a console, consoles are around the 500 mark, so it would be at least 700 otherwise they would have mentioned aggressive pricing or something.
Valve hasn’t been clear about the price at all though. That could simple mean it won’t be sold at a loss like console have historically been.
Tom from Moore’s Law estimated the cost to build the steam machine at $425 and the steam deck at around $300. If the Steam Machine is sold for the save $100 profit that’s a total of $525.
Yeah I’m thinking that it’ll be around $500 to $600 for the base model and maybe $550 to $650 for the two terabyte model. After all its upgradable so there’s not really any point them trying to price gouge anyone on the storage.
The general consensus I’ve seen from people is that it will be sub 1K simply because they know it has to be in order to be profitable. The only people who think it’s going to be over 1k seem to be people who don’t actually know that it’s not really a super powerful system, they advertised it as being seven times more powerful than the steam deck, but the steam deck itself is not exactly a powerhouse in fact the switch 2 is more powerful.
You’re paying for the fact that it’s tiny, the fact that it’s not a window system, and for the convenience of just being able to throw some money at someone and have a fairly decent gaming system without having to mock about in the weeds, because a lot of people don’t like that aspect of PC building.