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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)

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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