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Steam Machine price has landed: starts at $1,049 with no controller and 512 GB (www.pcgamer.com)
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512 GB: $1,049 USD / 1,509 CAD / 1,039 EUR / 879 GBP / 1,609 AUD / 4,389 PLN

2 TB: $1,349 USD / 1,919 CAD / 1,359 EUR / 1,149 GBP / 2,109 AUD / 5,739 PLN

512 GB w/ Controller: $1,128 USD / 1,628 CAD / 1,108 EUR / 938 GBP / 1,728 AUD / 4,698 PLN

2 TB w/ Controller: $1,428 USD / 2,038 CAD / 1,428 EUR / 1,208 GBP / 2,228 AUD / 6,048 PLN

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[–] 34 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I think what folks are missing is that this might be the future of gaming. This is mega expensive for what it is...if you measure it by prices a couple of years ago. But PC parts are absolutely fucking ridiculously expensive right now and by today's prices this is basically on the nose.

I suspect that we're entering a future where game companies aren't making as many hyper realistic raytraced eye candy games and are going to have to go back to focusing on things like optimization and gameplay, simply because nobody can afford the hardware to run the beautiful but ultimately soulless games. This will struggle to run the former. It will easily run games that focus on the latter.

This might just be the future of PC gaming and it's landing like a wet fart because the future is going backwards. The good times are over.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    game companies aren't making as many hyper realistic raytraced eye candy games and are going to have to go back to focusing on things like optimization and gameplay, simply because nobody can afford the hardware to run the beautiful but ultimately soulless games.

    this is all ive wanted for games for the past 2 generations. fuck photorealism, let me run a game affordably

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Every time I upgrade my computer some nerd somewhere decides all textures for all games need to be 100x the size

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I hope this doesn't go the way of Steam Machine/Controller 1 and they stop producing these due to failure. Seems they have slow, constant production planned. I'm interested in seeing how this plays out over the next year.

    People are saying this will "struggle" with PS6 games, but how much is a PS6 gonna cost? If one ever releases?

    Edit: Also, as usual, I hate the Internet being dramatic, and I'm hoping it calms down while this thing is still buyable. Half of YT is saying this thing is a horrible deal, as if we didn't know its niche appeal before even the specs.

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