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Steam Machine price leak shakes the console market

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I'm lost by what is notable here.

Valve always said the Steam Machine would be priced like a PC in its communication and is apparently delaying the launch while waiting for the components market to cool down so you would expect the MSRP might not be final.

The leaked prices if they turn out to be correct are perfectly aligned with expectations.

Also, what is this website? It seems like an AI generated submission on a news aggregator which contains a list of sources which would have objectively been better links to share. All the other submissions have no comment.

If you just want the number: $950 for 512GB, $1000+ for the “higher tier variant”.

If you have, or even plan to have a couple of games on Steam then it’s cheaper than a console already. Many people are capable of making that calculation.

For comparison:

- The PS5 Slim Digital Edition is 12,700 Kč, which is 575 USD.

- The PS5 Pro is 20,000 Kč, which is 958.19 USD.

I think that the PS5 prices are not yet corrected for the new RAM prices as a result of the AI induced shortage.

950 for a pc I can do anything, and I can install games fron anywhere: good

800 for a PS5 pro where I need to buy from a single store which historically abused this tactic, no tks

PS5 pro - just works, decent 4K gaming, plays PS5 games and timed exclusives, remote play support, compatible with my PSN library / flash drive full of PS4 games. Reasonably quiet (though not as whisper quiet as original PS5.)

Steam Machine - pre-configured and easier than regular PC, decent 1440p gaming, plays nearly any PC game, remote play support, compatible with my Steam and GoG libraries.

Both sound good actually.

That seems cheap to me, a handful of games and you made your money back.

What's the news here, just a clickbait title..?

The community largely expected something like $800, with some overly-optimistic estimates going as low as $400-$600. So to a lot of people I think this feels overpriced. I personally don't have a sense for the PC market and costs, so I can't comment on this myself, but I know that a lot of people were hoping for something sub-$1000.

I'm personally really excited for the Steam Machine, but I'm not sure it makes sense for me to get one. It's a somewhat close side-grade of my current PC, which is working just fine. And we have two very small children, so there is really no benefit to a permanent couch computer for us either.

When you look what 24gb of ram costs right now it’s about 60% of that leaked price.

I’ve just bought a brand new Ryzen 5950x and will probably skip am5 altogether :|

This is a post-covid, post Trump world, post AI influenced RAM price world. $150 isn’t the barrier it used to be.

We aren't post-Trump nor post-AI yet. (More like mid-Trump and mid-AI)

Post Trump will happen. Post AI won’t. It’s here to stay, though the investment bubble will fade. RAM prices will come down as price signals work and supply ramps. There’s now more demand for RAM.

The issue with the steam machine is not so much the price in absolute terms but the competition. On one hand there are the PS5 and Xbox consoles that are quite cheap and with a lot of fans, and on other hands there are the millions of desktop pc and laptop that run steam as well if not better.

The steam deck was a success because there was only the aging Nintendo switch on the console side, and absolutely nothing on the "able to run steam" side. And the price was very competitive : 430€ for the most basic model, when several years before the switch was 330€ and the switch 2 is now 430€.

I don't know something with a slick form factor, a great TV UX out of the box, that handles sleep well and can be waken up by a controller reliably fits a real niche I think.

I might pay for that actually. Fiddling with a PC is not fun. There is value in convenience.

Ah thats to expensive. This is really going to be DoA.

The sections in this feel LLM written "Why Valve being silent is part of the strategy" for instance.

Ok you said steam isn’t going to compete on price with the consoles about a dozen times…

Click bait title.

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