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Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

Care to share a link to a PCPartPicker with that?

Nope. Already closed the tab and can't be bothered to do it again. I did check the link you provided and I see where you went wrong. We'll get to that in a bit.

It's literally not, they custom developed it for the product, similar to the Steam Deck one, it is based on the architecture used on laptops, but so are Playstation and Xbox AFAIK.

It literally has the exact same specs as a Ryzen 5 7400F and an RX7600M. But hey, you were right, the CPU is actually not a laptop CPU.

Can you provide a link to such a prebuilt? Here's the first prebuilt I could find with similar specs, and it's 1k https://periphio.com/gaming-pcs/firestorm-7600-prebuilt-amd-gaming-pc/

Sure I could. I won't because you already did and your prebuilt even is a $50 cheaper than the one I had found. Remember that I said we'd get to why the part list you posted was wrong? Here we are. An RX7600 has 32 compute units and a boost clock of about 2.6GHz. The ~~RX7600M~~ "custom GPU" in the Steam Machine has 28 CUs and a boost clock of about 2.4Ghz. This results in the full size 7600 being anywhere from 30% to 70% faster than its mobile version depending on the game and about 50% in synthetic benchmarks. So those PCs with "similar specs" you brought up are not similar at all.

And the other one is 700, your point is?

What other one? The one nobody bought? I guess Valve could go the same route if their goal is for nobody to buy their product.

It didn't happened with the Deck because it's not sold at a loss, so it's cheaper to assemble a similarly built PC for you. But I definitely saw several posts through the years recommending people just buy a Steam Deck as their machine in certain conditions. If the Steam Deck costed 300 I guarantee you people would be using it as their daily drivers or building clusters of them.

It didn't happen with the Deck because it's one of the worse ideas ever conceived. It won't happen with the Cube because it will remain one of the worst ideas ever conceived.