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Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The answer I'm replying to suggested you can get a prebuilt with a 9600 for 1000, since they're replying to my point that a prebuilt with similar spec is 1000.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, weird. I just read the whole chain going up and I don't see any indication the figures were for prebuilt systems. Maybe someone edited their post or something isn't federating?

    Regardless, Valve is apparently going to be competitive just in hardware costs, which makes sense—they can't expect to extract extra value from software sales, but they should still be able to have an acceptable profit margin with their scale and lack of layers in their distribution model.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    This is the thing I'm replying to, emphasis on the prebuilt.

    Buying the same build as a prebuilt brings a premium and costs around 1000

    For 1k you can get a 9600 9060XT 16gb system, which is waaaaaay more powerful, so this is quite an exaggeration.

    But yeah, I don't think the machine will cost the same as a prebuilt, but that's the high end of the price range.

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