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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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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I'm not saying it would be a good thing. I'm saying it would be a successful thing.

This will not put a noticeable dent into the console market with this strategy. I don't even think it's intended to. The entire idea that they're even trying to compete with Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft with this looks like nonsense to me. I don't think they're trying to do that at all. Seems more like it's targeted at the PC market for people that want a living room system and already have a steam library.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Seems more like it's targeted at the PC market for people that want a living room system and already have a steam library.

    I thought that was obvious? That's definitely how they've presented it, it's also how the steamdeck was presented. I mean the whole thing of the steamdeck was like "do you have a giant backlog of stuff you don't play because the big noisy lightbox is inconvenient and isolating?"

    Sony alone is so deeply entrenched in Japan it may as well be a branch of the government. PC gaming is increasingly expensive and fringe with mobile gaming being the largest and most profitable area. The steam cube thing seems pretty clearly positioned as "Just plug it in and turn it on, congrats all your games now work with a controller on the couch" box.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah but half the internet, including some things posted to Hexbear, seems to think it's a real competitor. People are saying that this is good and will harken real competition back into the console market. That's not what this is at all.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago*

    The entire gaming industry right now is just Microsoft, gambling you can't win targetted at children, and Sony/Nintendo + developers joined at the hip.

    Like how the steamdeck inspired copycats it might breath some life into PC hardware, and reduce microsoft's stranglehold a bit/lifeboat some people fleeing windows but it's not like this will magically let you run sony/nintendo exclusives + your back catalogue, provide the game gamepass integration as xbox/windows, or move your friends and gamerbro expensive pixels.

    If anyone thinks that they probably don't grok how entrenched the big 3 are, they're part of people's identities and have like geopolitical influence lol.

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