Why the fuck would it be 500 dollars? The most expensive Steam Deck is 649 dollars and the Steam Machine is 6x more power than that. It will be 800 dollars.
Damn faga really are going to make these exact same threads every day until the price finally gets announced huh? Imagine being this obsessed or being Indian typing up shit tedious threads for barely any compensation
More power for what games? Modern unoptimized slop? Honestly, just put the Deck in a box and charge $300 for it. No buttons, no screen. Just a cheap linux desktop that can play all the games worth playing.
>>728976782its going to be $1300. they already said they're not going to sell it at a loss
>>728976782i know you retards will buy it
>>728976782It's going to be $700 at the base price, $900 for the 2TB
>>728976782>It will be 800 dollars.Because you can get a prebuilt PC for $750 that blows the steam box's specs out of the waterIf it's not cheaper than existing prebuilts, it has no reason for existing
Worth it.
>>728978410Can the base model cost, at least, $600?
>>728976782make it atleast 1,300 and ill think about buying it
>>728976782With PC component prices sky-rocketing, I may not be able to upgrade my desktop like I was planning, so a Steam Machine is starting to become more appealing to me.I wonder how it would compare to my i9 10900K + RTX 2080 Ti.
Because I assume they want anyone that's not already a Valve drone to buy it.
>>728979826Anon, going that PC to steam machine is a downgrade.
>>728978410>Because you can get a prebuilt PC for $750 that blows the steam box's specs out of the waterRAM costs that much now, not anymore
>>728976782what's that slit? Looks to long to be usb-c port
>>728976782It will be 1500 minimum due to ram being like 800$ now
>>728976782I got a prebuilt around $600 that was better
>>728976782Because modern gamers are poor and don't realize yet that there is a collective effort by the tech industry to wall off computer parts from consumers to force everyone to buy into shitty streaming machines that use Ai.
>>728980243Sd card slot
>>728980371Everyone will just get a $450 Switch 2, $550 Steam Deck 2 called the "Steam Deck", and $600 Steam Machine, they won't bother getting anything else because gaming already hit a wall in graphics.
>>728976782$800 is extremely optimistic with the current trend of PC pricing. If it's under $1200 I will be surprised.
>>728980082Oh shit, really? Thank you, anon.
>>728980371video games just aren't worth thousands of dollars it's mostly slop. you used to be able to go into a store and buy a console for $300 and it just worked.
>>728980410ah okay thx
>>728976782>Spend 500 USD>Get the hottest fuckable cube on the marketEz purchase
I don't care about the gabencube just release the controller already my shitty xbox pad is dying
>>728976782>Why the fuck would it be...Just wait until it's out or its price is announced, you stupid, retarded fucking nigger.
>>728976782>Why the fuck would it be 500 dollars?because it is under powered with ps6 right around the corner. That being said because of the current market with RAM and such I predict a price of $999
>>728981528>underpoweredthat's a game developer issue>b-but they make profits from games doe!!!they cannot sell at a loss because you're not locked to an ecosystem, can use any other game store and anyone buying steam machine probably have games in their steam account beforehand
>>728976782with the ram supply dropping to literally 0 until 2027, even if this thing was going to cost south of 1k originally, it damn sure isn't going to now.
$900 at Walmart gets you a Ryzen 8400F, 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD, and an RTX 5060. All in a case with tempered glass and full faggot rainbow lights that all the bisexual zoomer kids love.Theres no way you can sell a significantly weaker(CPU and GPU) box for only $100 less, especially when about $100 is the OEM market for Windows systems. The Gabecube is worth maybe $650.
Why does everyone bring up consumer RAM prices?Valve isn't a consumer. They're a major tech company. They're buying in bulk at industry prices.I do think the RAM price fluctuating is why Valve hasn't announced a price yet, but they're not going on Newegg or Best Buy to build these things one by one.
>>728976782>Steam Machine is 6x more power than thatIt also consumes 10 times more energy which is where most of performance comes from.
>>728982559It consumes about 6X more power. 30w CPU, 110w GPU, rest is negligible. The Deck total can max out about 25w under a heavy load.
For me, it's the acemagic minipcidk I just assume the quality is the same because they are both cubular
>>728982515To add onto this, Valve is absolutely adamant, this is not a game console, this is a gaming focused PC.The reason? Game consoles are subject to stiffer tariffs than PCs.I think Valve is gonna be a bit more savvy on pricing than people are expecting.
If it's $800, it'll sell 15 units.
>>728982427They actually have an 8700F with 32GBs and a 5060ti available for the same price right nowhttps://www.walmart.com/ip/iBUYPOWER-Element-SE-Gaming-PC-Desktop-AMD-Ryzen-7-8700F-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-5060Ti-8GB-32GB-DDR5-RGB-RAM-1TB-NVMe-SSD-ESA7N56T01/17048165781
>>728976782You''d have to pay me to have one of these DRM-locked down eye-sores in my house.
>>728976782Most of the cost over $300 is the oled screen
Reminder that there's people literally gambling money on Steam Machine price.
>>728982895Tablet sized OLED panels are not expensive. Go look at aliexpress parts.
>>728982954Well regardless, the lcd one is much cheaper with the same internals
>>728982090they might not even keep making it past the initial batch since ram went 5x.
>>728982912That'll easily be over $700. I don't know how with the specs they published. I suppose they could make a super cheapo 'kit' of sorts to sell but I'm not fully convinced any model will be under $700 unless they delay its release for like 2-4 years for the markets to correct themselves.
>>728983217>really mediocre if not low end mobile hardware >no windows license >somehow going to be nearly as expensive as Windows PCs with hardware 50% faster Yeah. Nah.
It's just a black box idk why it would be so much, if they're already charging so much why not add some flair?
>>728983672The stated ram and GPU alone will be over $700 with the violate price changes in these last few weeks/months.
>>728983761The GPU is literally worthless ewaste that AMD couldn't sell, and Valve isn't paying consumer margin market for components.
>>728983878While it is a given they get special manufacturing rate discounts they'd assumably would like a profit for it and there is also costs for manufacturing it in general. Not sure how much the Steam controller costs but when they were cleaning out their stock and discontinuing it I picked mine up from Steam itself for like 5 bucks which was pretty bad ass. Regardless if it flops hard I hope to snipe the price they offer to clean out their stock.
>>728984010The Steam Deck was never sold at a loss. They said the profit margin was "painful", but it was still never sold at a loss. Valve may end up being happy with just a fifty dollar profit on each Gabecube.
>>728984212Not him, but when Valve killed the Steam Deck LCD, I knew what they plan to do with the Steam Deck 2. They're going to sell it at the same price with the same amount of RAM and storage in 2028 and they will name it the same name while discontinuing the OLED original Steam Deck.
>>72898582616GB in 2028 isn't going to happen. LPDDR6 density is a big step up.
>>728986009>LPDDR6It's either that or they'll stick with LPDDR5X for their handheld like Sony is doing for their PS handheld. Valve is going for an entry-level RDNA 5 which is 12 compute units which will be limited to 8-16GB of RAM. Going any higher than 12 RDNA 5 CUs would put the handheld well above even $649 as the next RDNA 5 up is the AT4 RDNA 5 with 24 CUs and up to 24GB of RAM. Remember man, Valve isn't Sony or Microsoft, they actually want to make their hardware affordable.
