>Take a gaming laptop chipset.>Remove the screen, keyboard , and touchpad>add better thermals for handling heat load>Place it in a flatter but overall equally compact case>Pre install Bazzite or Steam OS to avoid windows license fees>Sell your own Steam Machine.Seems like a no brainer.
if anyone else released a product like the steam machine i'd be skewering them, but since it's valve i'm gonna look the other way and hope there are enough suckers who buy one that there's a steam machine 2 when hardware prices are back to normal
>>741888404The steam machine is ass. I see what they were going for and how it can be improved, but even the $750 price they were aiming for was too much for how little performance it has.They gambled too hard of upscaling tech doing the heavy lifting and it failed.>Concept is great>The idea of the OS adding little touches like turning on with a controller and instant sleep suspension is great >Even having it be a minimum spec machine is a good idea.But fuck me did they fumble this hard.>But wee don't take a loss.Okay, can you give us some steam credits to lock people into your store and make it worth the retarded price?I think every valve game for free is a bare minimum that costs you literally nothing. Throwing in a $300 gift card that you get 30% of a cut on is a damn good way to justify the purchase.
all gaming consoles should come with a projector lens attached to them so you can play anywhere without needing a monitor or a tv.
>>741888092Because that is just a NUC or similar mini PC.
steam machines don't lock users into valve's storefront though, which is why they didn't subsidize with freebies or reduced pricesnot that anyone would, but you could buy a steam machine then exclusively play gog or epic/fab/whatever games
Low end gaming is so grim. Zoomers don't know how to build PCs anymore. They need to buy these shitty prebuilts or overpriced laptop parts.
>>741890319valve locked purchases to steam powerusers thoughbeit
>>741888092>>Pre install Bazzite or Steam OS to avoid windows license feesWould they actually save anything? It'd probably be a net negative, considering all the preinstalled adware they get paid to put on laptops
>>741891183>power usersyou just need a steam account because you purchase from their website
>>741891926You need an account in both good standing and a purchase from before April. If you made a steam account even last month you wouldnt be able to purchase it
>>741892370Its a niche product that is selling to a limited audience, did people expect this thing to sell a lot?
>>741888092The appeal of the Steam Machine is that it's made by Valve, not that it's a micro PC.There's no practical audience for a console/PC hybrid
>>741890325Some of the shit zoomers don't know is terrifying. I would feel bad but when I try and help them they act shitty and defensive rather than thankful or curious.
>>741892370that's only for the initial batches, it doesn't matter if you can wait a bit, so realistically this system only fucks with scalpers (which will still exist, but will have their pool reduced)
>>741891617You raise a point.They lose ad bloat revenue but save $200 per unit for windows license.They could just sell windows machines then cry when people load Linux as the OS.
>>741897807>when people load Linux as the OS.Lol, why in their right mind would anyone do that.
>>741888092>Take a gaming laptop chipset.>Remove the screen, keyboard , and touchpad>add better thermals for handling heat load>Place it in a flatter but overall equally compact caseso eaxctly what minisforum has been doing for near a decade?
>>741890325Low end has been completely dogshit for several generations now, you'd want at least a 70 series to run anything 1440p which is the bare minimum nowadays.
