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Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's a brutal time to be releasing hardware like this.

GPU prices, RAM, SSDs, all inflated through the roof.

This should have been the price of a PS5 Pro, with the performance of a PS5 and it's not even that.

I still want the Frame, but only because my OG Rift died a couple of months back. I really don't want to have to go crawling back to Meta for a Quest 3 when I see the price of the Frame, but I'm not optimistic. They really need a reduced spec Frame that just does the streaming portion. With RAM and GPU prices as they are, that would at least make some sense.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    The price does spook me about the Frame, but I may get it out of desperation no matter the cost because like you said, there's no way in hell I'd buy a Meta product. I absolutely loved my Quest 2, before Meta pushed all that metaverse shit and made the thing unbootable.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'll be buying the Frame no matter what.

    I also had the OG Rift but since I moved to Linux it's been nothing more than a paperweight.

    I could go to Meta, but I honestly don't want to do that to myself. The way I see it, the Frame is the only way I get to keep a small amount of privacy and dignity in this world which increasingly has neither.

    So I'm saving up my pennies.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    If valve made the frame as it's going to be and an index 2 that was the index but lighter with all around improvements but was still wired only with no battery pack, which would you buy? Standalone inside-out, or next gen pcvr with lighthouses?

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