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ETA Prime : Steam Machine Hands-On First Look! :: Also Price Reveal and Order Waitlist Open! (youtube.com)
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Looks like some kind of review embargo has been released, ETA Prime's apparently been sitting on a review model Steam Machine for a month.

YT url once more:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cF6eAM3jhCY

EDIT:

Oh holy shit, we also apparently have prices and a wait list sign up that... apparently closes on June 25th, 10am Pacific time.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

Variant / Price:

512 GB / $1049.00

512 GB + Controller / $1,128.00

2TB / $1349.00

2 TB + Controller / $1,428.00

EDIT 2:

This is all on the same day that we get news that... AMD figured out how to make FSR4 work on RDNA 3 / 7000 series GPUs, and, Steam is currently or just about to push a beta Proton update to Experimental, which will give this thing (as well as any PC w/ AMD 7000 series GPU) FSR4 support for basically any game that currently supports FSR3.

https://www.theverge.com/news/953664/amd-fsr-4-1-upscaling-rx-7000-series-gpus-rdna-3

https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-fsr-4-upscaling-confirmed

So... that's a lot of news.

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

Valve may reach 10b annually with their hardware expansion releasing good products.

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

    Can you clarify what you mean by this?

    Are you saying... $10b annually in harware sales?

    Using the $1128 price for the 512GB SM + Controller, that'd be uh... ~8.8m units sold annually.

    That's totally absurd, imo.

    That's roughly a quarter of 2025's PS5 (any variant) console sales numbers.

    Valve would have to pivot into basically only/primarily being a hw manufacturer, they'd have to ... somewhere between 10x and 100x the amount of money/capital they're currently using to source components, do assembly and then ship things physically.

    They do not have that much money.

    Valve has like a total of less than 500 employees, their entire business culture is built around having a very small number of incredibly competent and often multi-domain skilled employees.

    They'd have to radically shift the entire fundamental structure of what the company is, to do something like that.

    ... but perhaps I misunderstand what you mean?

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