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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 days ago by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts' opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.

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[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No way in hell. For $1,000 I'll just build one myself.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

Which is why all these analyses are stupid. We don't need to do anything anywhere near as complicated as looking to market interactions and equivalent cost pricing. Because it's obvious that at $1,000 it'll flop and presumably valve know that.

I like the theory that they got the CPU and GPU at bargain basement prices because it was left over from some previously scrapped project of Microsoft or something. That would explain why it's such a weird architecture.