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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago

It sounds perfect for me. I didn't want to pay for online gaming. I'm not into subscription services. I have a ton of games on Steam. I have been waiting for years for a good time to upgrade my gaming PC. Cheapest option was going to be $1,200. Pre built PC are garish and embarrassing looking. Windows is currently a dumpster fire. 6 times the power of a Stream Deck. Just want to play my games. Didn't care about games that won't play on it, there's a always another game that will work.

Sold! (Please be $600 out less)

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, I find my Steam Deck powerful enough and this is, what, 6x over the Steam Deck?

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Exactly. The Machine isn't made for people with super high end rigs. It's made for console gamers or people with an older rig. I don't own a PC, but I thoroughly enjoy my Deck. Looking forward to pricing on the Machine and Frame.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

I used to be a hardcore PC gamer, twenty years ago, but as the years went by I found that the costs just got silly. Graphics cards have cost silly money for several console generations now. However if there's a common platform that's good enough, I'd be interested.

I love my Steam Deck but a bit more power would be great for a few things (notably Fallout London).

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago

I'd argue it's also for people who want sleep and resume on a PC for that console experience. I have a 3070ti system, which is older and mid now but still smokes the steam machine, and I'll be "downgrading" to this because I consider quick resume an upgraded experience. Most games I play don't even need that power.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I can see unplugging the Raspberry Pi in the bedroom and replacing it with the Steam Machine.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 hours ago

Before I got my steam deck, I was playing on a 2400g htpc. I’m sure this will be fine.

[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It's fine but ideally would have more vram. Depends on price of course.

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm actually kinda glad it has only 8gb for an odd reason; I hope it encourages devs to optimize their games more so they aren't locked out of the steam machine market.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago) (1 children)

I hope you're right. Games have run like dogshit for at least the past 5 years or so, even with reasonably powerful hardware.

Unfortunately, I'm not very optimistic because of the Unreal Engine monoculture (except for a bunch of blessed indie games) in the gaining industry. It would most likely be Epic's job to make their engine not perform like shit, which... 😬

[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 minutes ago

Valve have a lot of data on this, I'm sure 8GB is going to be substantially for most of the playable top 10

[–] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 4 hours ago

They really dropped the ball with only 8gb vram, it's not like GDDR is expensive.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

It needs to at least match console performance, aiming for 4K@30, maybe medium settings. 4K@60 would be ideal of course.

[–] verdi@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

Another Philip appreciator, a see you're a person of culture as well!