The longer valve keeps running with the AI excuse the messier this will be.Even the most dumb person knows AI did not cause the cost of the steam machine to be $1200 with a controller.Valve can ship the steam machine base model without a controller for $700 and still make a minimum 10% margin.They completely lost the ball.
omg video games!
It is perplexing how bad this thing is. Its laptop tier.
>>109165370damn nigga thats crazy. show one laptop listing capable of reasonable 3d performance on its apu * with a mere 256gb drive * and that isnt some second hand ryzen thinkpad with a swapped out lcd and chinese ssd chinkshit, a courtesy of from a local abdul reseller. ill wait. valve is uniquely shit, and the decades worth of "hurdurr gabeN, hurrdurr muh summer sale" faggots arent refuting the argument valve are talentless conartists milking gullible suckers with the input of billion dollar PR farms.
>>109165370Because it literally is an ancient laptop just with the screen, keyboard, trackpad, and battery removed. The 7600m used in this thing was so awful basically no laptops OEMs used it.
i'm so fucking tired of economic flat earther retards trying to make conspiracy theories about economy manfacturing cost being <50% total cost is totally normal especially with the insane amount of R&D required for something like this i'd never buy a console but for 3/4 of consumers performance is less important than integration if it wasnt it wouldnt sell out immediately
>>109165471But why spend so much on R&D to produce something that matches the performance of a craptop designed by a jeet engineer on his lunchbreak?
>>109165490try reading my post first tard
>>109165351retards again. Valve has priced this so that it can pay for itself, and prove out the demand for steam boxes. If they priced it low then other makers could not compete with the subsidized price, so they are actually setting it to make a market.Valve has a lot of smart people, even economists. I'd bet they have more data and spent a lot more time thinking about this than any of you have.
>>109165681>Valve has a lot of smart people, even economists.https://i.4cdn.org/g/1782787068713762.png
Don't care, mine was completely free thanks to steambux and selling some cs2 skins that appreciated in value.
>>109165828I get all the gameplay updates for free while retards pay for cosmetics. Its a win-win for anyone who isn't a retard.
>>109165681idk.I have a ticket, but I won't buy it...idk. I was hoping they would ask a straight person what we wanted, but they didn't.What a straight person wants is a controller that supports Mode 2 fpv. A straight person wants a bundled exclusive. And a straight person wants an ai waifu.
>>109165681That makes sense. They can have Acer and HP sell steam boxes. Selling hardware is much harder than hosting games.
>>109165857Not only that, people who make skins and maps get paid for making content for valve games. Infinite well of content.
>>109165857>gameplay updates for freeyou what
>>109165351>>109165364>>109165370Stop buying expensive hardware, start stacking physical silver to force them to make the hardware cheap.
>>109165857steam makes 15% on every market transaction so their entire business model ends up revolving around instigating tulip mania speculation activity..it's all retards.
>>109165889Don't care. I get a free game without community fracturing DLC packs or having to pay $80 a year for the same game.
>>109165884I'm stacking TOKENSstop staking stuff and start VIBING and THRIVING and ARRIVING
>>109165884God I'm jelly.My current stack is about 1/20th of that.Better than most but not even close to my dreams.
>a literal who faggot image with no quality think its proof of something
>>109165828he just wants the credit
>>109165452> show one laptop listing capable of reasonable 3d performance on its apu * with a mere 256gb drive * and that isnt some second hand ryzen thinkpad with a swapped out lcd and chinese ssd chinkshit, a courtesy of from a local abdul reseller. ill wait.why does it have to be an APU? The Steambox does not use an APU.
>>109165884Can it run doom?
>>109165351>Valve can ship the steam machine base model without a controller for $700 and still make a minimum 10% margin.i love your brovadoexplain to us how
>>109165351those are last year pricesValve said in an interview, the memory sellers gave them a price "take it or leave it" and if they were to say no they would never get anything again.
>>109165351>System RAM $48MLID is basically the flat earther of tech at this point.
>>109168307Guy is a lolcow, he never recovered from that one time he fucked up his leaks.
>>109165351Rumour is Valve is making about 3-400 bucks profit with the steam machine. They literally decided to screw their audience.
>>109165351For a guy who claims to be on the pulse of hardware and has tons of sources he's oddly out of touch and unwilling to adjust his price estimates for the steam machine, when he seems happy to accept it with other hardware. Like he's taken it really personally.
>>109167666Valve have pretty much hinted they had all their contracts lined up and the memory companies flipped them off when they realised they could make 10x the money elsewhere
>>109169865>t. Tim
>>109165351Link me that website where you bought RAM for 48 USD and 512GB nvme for 30 bucks.
It might be shit but it'll sell the way apple garbage does, it's tard bling lmao
