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This is for general public. So add 1 million dollars for tech support
The discourse around this confuses the fuck out of me. Did people actually expect this to be <$500?
I think the problem is Valve lost control of the messaging, which led to bad expectations.
At least in the US, a computer hooked up to a TV to play games means it's a "console" and not a computer. Maybe we can blame Nintendo back in the 80s for going out of their way to avoid calling the NES a computer (despite it's name in Japan being Famicom, Family Computer), but the distinction exists today despite technologically no real difference. You know this, I know this, Valve knows this. So Valve wants to make a computer you hook up to your TV so they can get you to use ~~their money printing machine~~ Steam in the living room too.
If you read Valve's marketing material on the Steam Machine, they don't use the word "console" once. It's always either by name or the terms PC, computer, or system. They likely don't mention the word "console" because to date, video game consoles follow a different business model, one where the model subsidizes the shit out of the hardware and then make money on the back end with game sales/licensing.
Current "console" hardware starts in the <$500 price bracket, and with so much third party media marketing calling the Steam Machine a console, that got people's mind set on pricing expectations of that market.
No, but the price points of the current consoles are hilariously optimistic.
Idk, $699 USD for the PS5 pro seems a bit closer to "PC pricing" than I would expect from Sony if they're subsidizing the cost with future game sales.
I'd kind of expect them to be making consoles at break-even/no-profit, more than at a loss right now.
I find it amusing how much discussion there is around the price of this when it only ships to like 1/4th of the world. If it would be available in stores like nintendo, I doubt people there would be much issue regarding high price.
That's the first batch, if it will get traction it will be shipped to the rest of the world in no time
Steamdeck still hasn't been available in many places :( let's hope. With how pc prices are looking, I just want a decent console that can run my steam library and minecraft.
Im not sure I follow your logic. What would shipping location have to do with complaints about price?
If they subsidized it, wouldn't that risk businesses buying it as a cheap-for-its-specs option for their office computers? It's not locked to being a gaming machine like consoles. You can just install windows on it.
Unlikely.
Businesses generally aren't that stoked about anything other than laptops or servers.
To the extent they have desktop grade equipment, it's either:
On servers, the steam machine isn't that attractive since it's not designed to either be slapped in a closet and ignored on slotted in a datacenter.
Putting all this aside, businesses love simplicity in their procurement. They aren't big on adding a vendor for a specific niche when they can use an existing vendor, even if in theory they could shave a few dollars in cost. The logistical burden of adding Steam Machine would likely offset any imagined savings. Especially if they had to own re-imaging and licensing when they are accustomed to product keys embedded in the firmware when they do vendor preloads today.
Maybe you could worry a bit more about the consumer market, where you have people micro-managing costs and will be more willing to invest their own time, but even then the market for non-laptop home systems that don't think they need nVidia but still need something better than integrated GPUs is so small that it shouldn't be a worry either.
That's a tradition with gaming systems, see the Navy's playstation supercomputer!
They're letting us discuss this ad nauseam just to understand what prices people consider acceptable for these devices