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The price really seems way too high if they are this scared to put out a number
The big problem are the RAM prices at the moment. Hard to set a number if you don't know if the RAM prices double or quadruple in the coming months.
I will be very much surprised if they haven't secured and locked the prices of all their components for a year or two ahead, so this should not be a factor. Probably they are just waiting to see what will happen with the tariffs and tasting the sentiment of the market for such a device.
I presume they will sell it almost at cost or even at loss, as this will eventually increase their game sales overall.
This is going to come off as shilling for Valve, but it isn't my intention.
I could entirely see Valve pricing the Steam Machine relatively affordably and this statement is ultimately a dig at how overpriced pre-built PCs and consoles can be.
"The Steam Machine outperforms 70% of current user PCs...we neglected to say that the majority of user PCs are overpriced for what they deliver."
I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the price. From what I've read, and watched, its not going to be competitive like the Deck - it'll be more expensive than the current consoles. I just have a feeling people are underestimating it this time around.
Even though LTT said valve gave a cold stare at a $500 price tag, the BOM estimate is sitting around $420 (compared to $300 for the deck).
If they follow the same path as the steam deck, they could still comfortably sell the base model at $600 or $550 if they want to get aggressive with consoles.
Valve basically broke even with the base model steam deck, so I'm assuming the remaining $100 per unit cost is all the external stuff like production shipping etc. They make profit on the higher level models by charging more for storage and OLED.
Valve's plan was never to compete with consoles, but they're sitting on a golden opportunity here with Xbox flailing in the water and being able to price match without loss. Their major blocker is the anti cheat holdouts though, and I don't think they'll be willing to change unless steam machine itself becomes very popular, which forms an annoying loop.
I think they're probably having some great arguments behind the scenes on what point exactly they should settle on based off of the public response everyone is giving from this statement lol.
Not a number. Not interesting.
Is PC
Shock and awe when told it MAY cost similar to a PC
It's moreso because of the actual specs itself, "priced like a PC" is anywhere from $300 to $10,000(at least semi-reasonably on a consumer scale) which isn't a good metric if you could guess. However, based on the specs it should be somewhere from $500 to $800, and realistically because they were working with manufacturers for it they should be getting a good deal on the parts and therefore it should ere more towards $500 than anything, which would be console pricing. Of course excluding any peripherals. The issue is the way they're wording it, and the way they have reacted to people like Linus asking if the price will be around $500. It seems like "PC pricing" means more like $1000, which is honestly overpriced for the specs and if it is said price I highly recommend no one buy it, just build your own, it's easier than you think.
The worst thing about the hardware unveiling is the endless posts about pricing 😮💨
Lol, not sure if you've noticed but the US is in a pretty shaky situation economically. Of course there's consumer anxiety about the cost of a luxury item.
Facts people forget:
With all of that being said, it seems to me it's very likely it will be around 800 but less than 1000. For people saying you can build one for that price yourself, sure, go ahead, you'll have a huge, power hungry loud box, without the same features and you would have saved only a small fraction of the value by having to assemble everything yourself.
Assembling your own Steam Machine with similar parts will cost around 800
No, it won't. $800 will get you a machine that's around 50% faster. Controller included.
Even if you assembled it yourself you would be missing features, such as cec, wake by controller, sleep mid game, etc. LTT will try to build one, it will be interesting to see what they come up with, but I'm 90% it won't have feature parity.
Fair enough.
There's lots of engineering gone into this machine, they're way more compact, less power hungry and more quiet than anything you can build yourself.
It's literally a laptop CPU with a laptop GPU.
Buying the same build as a prebuilt brings a premium and costs around 1000
Also not true. A 1k prebuilt is around 70% faster. Controller not included, though.
Valve purchases stuff in scale so they can diminish their margin and could potentially sell it cheaper than prebuilts, and possibly cheaper than building it yourself.
Sure, but that's an argument in favour of it costing less.
Consoles are sold at a loss, and they recover it with games because the platform is closed.
Yeah, and the best selling console of the generation is $450 for the digital-only version.
The Steam Machine is not closed, they can't be sure they're getting game purchases, because people might be buying this to be their work computer. So they have to price it as a PC, with margin on hardware, not promise of future returns.
Stop this delusion. If this was an actual possibility, it would already be happening with the Steam Deck. Yes, I know you know someone who did it. I know someone who bought a Surface to put Linux on it. There's dozens of us!
Price might fluctuate between now and announcement, RAM prices are going crazy nowadays.
That I see happening. RAM/storage might triple in price tomorrow which would push the price of the whole industry up.
It's literally a laptop CPU with a laptop GPU.
Not trying to have a go at you, actually genuinely curious: Do you have a source to confirm this, or is it more of an educated guess on your part?
All I’ve seen so far is that it’s a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6c/12t CPU and RDNA 3 28 CU GPU.
An educated guess. The specs of the "semi-custom" components perfectly match with existing products. However, if I were to put my tinfoil hat on, I'd point out that the 7600M has been out for 2 years and you still cannot find a laptop with one. Almost as if someone snatched up all of the supply.
No, it won't. $800 will get you a machine that's around 50% faster. Controller included.
Care to share a link to a PCPartPicker with that? Here's a link on the same thread of someone building a similarly speck machine for 800 https://lemmy.world/comment/20649777 and that is without the controller. In case you haven't noticed, RAM prices are a bit crazy at the moment.
It's literally a laptop CPU with a laptop GPU.
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.
Also not true. A 1k prebuilt is around 70% faster. Controller not included, though.
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, but that's an argument in favour of it costing less.
Yes, that was my point, the top of what this should cost is the same as a prebuilt with similar specs since Valve buys stuff in bulk it should be cheaper than that.
Yeah, and the best selling console of the generation is $450 for the digital-only version.
And the other one is 700, your point is?
Stop this delusion. If this was an actual possibility, it would already be happening with the Steam Deck. Yes, I know you know someone who did it. I know someone who bought a Surface to put Linux on it. There's dozens of us!
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.
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.
...LTT will try to build one...
Jay already tried. It was bigger, didn't have the custom OS, and cost $1700. He could have done better except he was part limited to what rhe Microcenter he was at had on hand. Doing a bunch or research and getting different parts would probably bring down the price.
Also people who like to DIY seem to forget that a lot of people want a turn-key solution, I even dare to say that most people prefer a ready made solution. Even a lot of people who work in tech when they get home want a just work solution.
LTT will try to build one
Time for another video of Linus failing to follow basic instructions and going out of his way to break the OS because Linux gaming bad