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*** Valve Steam Machine ***

Stanners said:
I have just received the email for purchasing the steam controller, forgot all about this.
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Be interesting to see if yours was a mistake too (hopefully not). @mrk had a notification and then they were like lol jokes you can’t have it.
 
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I have been thinking about buying and having the Steam Machine as my main PC for a little while now. of course the price to performance is quite discouraging, but i think prices for everything is going to remain high for quite a while, so i may just go for it and enjoy the little thing.
 
I love my Steam Machine. Gave up with PC gaming when mining made graphics cards stupidly expensive a few years ago and I just refused to pay that tax. Went console with a Series X.

But I'm a PC gamer at heart and had a big steam library so went all in on the steam deck on release. Loved that experience of it being docked into an LG 55 inch TV. Played all the Sony exclusives on the deck for the first time and the Last of Us part one. Loved that game so much I bought a PS5 to play part 2. But I hated that noisy whiny thing with a vengeance. I can't deal with fan noise so I sold it. Never liked the Sony experience in most things to be fair. Cameras included.

Then I got a Steam Machine this year and I've just finished the last of us Part 2 again. Compared to the PS5 ? it was leagues ahead in the fidelity stakes. Like for like on the same screen it was night and day. It blew the PS5 out of the water. I never expected it to but it did.

The Steam machine is a sleeper. Next year some people might wake up.
 
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Boge said:
I love my Steam Machine. Gave up with PC gaming when mining made graphics cards stupidly expensive a few years ago and I just refused to pay that tax. Went console with a Series X.

But I'm a PC gamer at heart and had a big steam library so went all in on the steam deck on release. Loved that experience of it being docked into an LG 55 inch TV. Played all the Sony exclusives on the deck for the first time and the Last of Us part one. Loved that game so much I bought a PS5 to play part 2. But I hated that noisy whiny thing with a vengeance. I can't deal with fan noise so I sold it. Never liked the Sony experience in most things to be fair. Cameras included.

Then I got a Steam Machine this year and I've just finished the last of us Part 2 again. Compared to the PS5 ? it was leagues ahead in the fidelity stakes. Like for like on the same screen it was night and day. It blew the PS5 out of the water. I never expected it to but it did.

The Steam machine is a sleeper. Next year some people might wake up.
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Good to read, I really like the idea of it and coming from a similar background. I might get one.

I know the Steam Deck has really benefitted massively from all the emulation and retro stuff you can do with it, is that the case with the SteamMachine too, i've not heard much talk about the community addons with it?
 
One thing I love about the SM is how fast it wakes up from sleep and is ready to resume gaming. It seems to take little more than 10s and the tv switches on almost immediately after powering on. In contrast to the PS5 pro which takes probably over 30s just to get to the login screen and then more time before you get gaming again.

Steam OS is just so well optimised and light.

Also many games run at higher frame rates on the SM which helps with latency and being able to use higher settings. It really combines some of the best features of consoles and pcs.

I have to resist the temptation to pat mine on the head and baby talk it every day :cry:
 
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