*** Valve Steam Machine ***

[Hotwired]

Yup, with the SD now at £779 there is little chance of the Steam Machine being launched at a price which represents good value. Really makes me wonder what the PS6 and Xbox's next console will be priced at !

You've seen the price of memory and ssds go up hugely before your eyes, newly priced devices with those components can never be good value when comparing to old pricing.

There will be a combination of people giving up their luxury buying or accepting the new norm.

And give it a second, there will be companies folding if they can't get people to accept higher prices due to higher component costs.

 

[malachi]

I'm retro gaming more and more these days, got my DS out of storage to try the £10 DSPico I picked up, it's ace.

With my existing Mister, Anbernic handhelds and Odin 2 I'm pretty good up to PS2 so never short of something to play.

I won't be paying the crazy prices out there for new tech, I quite fancied a Steam machine, but happy to wait it out until the AI bubble inevitably bursts and hardware returns to a reasonable price.

I'm into retro games as well but I'm not going to ignore that's getting expensive now.

The Mister has had a number of price increases even before the AI craze.

 

[SimonRigga]

but but but... it's Valve... the saviours of pc gaming with their 20% developer surcharge.. you will all love the £1200 price point for ps4 hardware and buy it..

all hail the mighty Gabe.. aaaaaahhhhhhhmmmmmmeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnn

 

[Timber]

I'm definitely not in the market for the Steam Machine now (for a moment I was thinking about one) as I'm about to build a new PC and the current AM4 based PC can become a 'lounge' PC. It'll be similar in performance I suspect. That being said the Steam Deck has been one of the delights of the last few years. A bit like the Switch it opened my eyes to portable gaming and using Linux as a mainstream OS for gaming. Although I'm very price sensitive if my current Steam Deck was unavailable for some reason I'd still seriously consider replacing it just because of the form factor.