*** Valve Steam Machine ***

Hotwired said:
Get a wireless adapter for the steam controller built in alongside the wireless and bluetooth.
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Ah I see…

I’m totally hook line and sinker for most things that Valve put out honestly. The Steam Deck has effectively renewed my love of gaming. But I think if they put out something that will only hit 1080p and might struggle with modern AAA, then it’s gotta have a price point that fits, and in this market I just don’t see it sadly…

I got the controller, it’s brilliant, and so is the puck that it came with.
 
Marky said:
I’m totally hook line and sinker for most things that Valve put out honestly. The Steam Deck has effectively renewed my love of gaming. But I think if they put out something that will only hit 1080p and might struggle with modern AAA, then it’s gotta have a price point that fits, and in this market I just don’t see it sadly…
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I've not been convinced the entire time that there is a goal to directly make money by selling it.

As in [this is the steam machine running steamos] for X price and [this is steamos] which is free and you can make your own computer into a steam machine.

How many sales are really needed to give a taste of the operating system, get people downloading it for free and encouraging actual pc makers to bundle it with their pc sales.
 
Hotwired said:
I've not been convinced the entire time that there is a goal to directly make money by selling it.

As in [this is the steam machine running steamos] for X price and [this is steamos] which is free and you can make your own computer into a steam machine.

How many sales are really needed to give a taste of the operating system, get people downloading it for free and encouraging actual pc makers to bundle it with their pc sales.
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Maybe, but I don't see the OS as being viable for the masses unless they get the anti-cheat services onboard.

I think you'll already get a lot of people buying a Steam Machine and then running to the internet to see why their favourite online game won't let them play anymore.
 
Rumours on reddit the embargo is due to lift soon - c.22/23rd June.

Steam Machine Release Date/Price Announcement possibly between June 23rd and June 30th, Review Embargo lifting June 23rd, Steam Frame announcement date ambiguous [reddit link]

-Source told me review video embargo lifts June 23. Embargo for Steam Controller was April 27, was announced April 27. -If announced June 23, a launch would be exactly a week later on June 30, the last day of June. This would keep Valve’s first half of the year promise while also being Summer. For June 22 -Last week’s documentation has June 29 date for Steam Machine user manual being released -June 22 and June 29 are both Monday. Steam Controller was announced and released on Mondays a week apart.
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Even if you're not that interested in the Steam Machine this will probably generate as much interest for the price alone.
 
Timber said:
Rumours on reddit the embargo is due to lift soon - c.22/23rd June.

Steam Machine Release Date/Price Announcement possibly between June 23rd and June 30th, Review Embargo lifting June 23rd, Steam Frame announcement date ambiguous [reddit link]



Even if you're not that interested in the Steam Machine this will probably generate as much interest for the price alone.
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I was very interested in a Steam Machine when it was first announced but grew tired of waiting and just built my own machine with a 5060ti 16GB for about £750 three months ago. I am glad I did because I would be amazed if the Steam Machine launches cheaper than that and even when it does launch I expect it to sell out straight away. Instead of waiting I have had three months of gaming at higher performance levels than the Steam Machine and at a probably cheaper price.
 
I think both the Steam Machine and Steam Deck are proof of concepts for SteamOS more than a money making machine. There are a few handhelds out there running SteamOS and I've no doubt that a few months after the Steam Machine debut, there will be SM clones of all shapes and sizes all running Steam OS, all with nice and easy to use front ends for the hoi poloi to purchase loads of games through Steam. Steam Machines aren't for us computer geeks but they'll show what can be done and before we know it, we'll be running SteamOS on our gaming PCs that wake up with a button press on the controller that take us straight to the game playing experience. Far better (imho) that the current Windows experience, something that Microsoft seems to have realised the way it's Xbox app is moving.
 
It's hyperbolic to say it's garbage
It'll clearly be able to play games

I've got a laptop with a 4060 which is probably similar performance and it'll play anything I throw at it, obviously won't be at maximum

I still think a PS5 Pro will probably be a better buy than a Steam Machine mind if IQ is important, and still query the price against a PS5 or Xbox X
 
At 4K, max setting? No of course not.

1080p low, probably.

You have to remember the largest install base is still a 3060 and many of those will be a laptop variant.

You’d be mad as a developer to be targeting something like a 5060/70 as your minimum requirement. It cuts down your potential market significantly.

Whether GTA6 will run on steamOS is another question due to anti-cheat.
 
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Grim5 said:
Fortnite
Half life 2
Roblox
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I know this might be a joke, but you're not playing Fortnite, or Roblox on this without installing Windows. You can use Sober to run Roblox on Linux but it isn't ideal and Roblox is a cat-and-mouse game on Linux as they don't want it being run on there.

You easily playing older games and eSports games that work on Linux; i.e. Deadlock. Just not the big ones like; COD, Fortnite, Apex etc. The massive downside of Steam OS/Linux atm.
 
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