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Steam Machine review: Valve's underwhelming living-room PC has a serious price problem

The Steam Machine is meant to bring SteamOS into the living room. In testing, however, Valve’s cube-shaped PC shows some clear weaknesses, especially when it comes to price.

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Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love

The Steam Machine is pricey, but it's still a decent games device and, more importantly, a singularly suitable PC for living room duty. Here's our full review.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

The Steam Machine is the most ambitious game console I’ve ever played

$1,049 buys PS5 performance in a couch-friendly desktop.

www.theverge.com

Valve’s Steam Machine Isn’t Trying to Replace Your PS5, but Its Plug-And-Play Design Makes It the Ultimate Living Room PC for Anyone Intimidated by Building Their Own Rig

The Steam Machine is Valve's new piece of hardware entering the scene as a mini PC built for living room gaming. I love a lot about it, had some issues with it, but overall came away from my time with it feeling very positive. The big question mark has been around the Steam Machine price. After...

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[MrRibeye]

IGN gave it an 8

 

[M.W.]

IGN gave it an 8

Of course they did. They are retarded.

 

[viveks86]

NVM. Already posted

 

[splattered]

People will buy this regardless... and it may help pave the way to helix acceptance. And whatever pc hybrid machine Sony eventually brings to market. Prices be damned.

 

[amigastar]

So no Half Life 3 accompanying it?
That's it i'm done with hoping Valve getting their shit together regarding HL3.

 

[CLW]

3060 performance for $1000

 

[winjer]

 

[Bojji]

High presets: 8 GiByte VRAM quickly becomes the limit
Hogwarts Legacy is a much more critical case. In the Ultra preset, even FSR cannot save the Steam Machine. At UHD, the frame rate reaches only 16.9 fps even with Ultra Performance, while native rendering produces just 2.0 fps. Even FHD does not reach a clean 60 fps class in the Ultra preset. The result is similar to Cyberpunk 2077: 8 GiB of VRAM is not a minor detail, but a real limitation. Anyone choosing very high presets quickly moves beyond what the Steam Machine can reasonably deliver.

Yo.

 

[amigastar]

Yo.

This shit is whack!

 

[GudOlRub]

According to the GamersNexus review the price isn't actually THAT uncompetitive compared to DIY.
If this came out a couple years ago it could actually be a good alternative for people who don't really like DIY and just want a pre-built PC that just works out of the box and behaves similarly to a console.
But yeah, in today's market it's way too expensive, I still think it's going to sell out but not because it'll sell like hot cake but because the stock will probably be very limited...
Good on Gaben and co for trying, bad timing and luck killed this before it could even take off.

 

[cafecat]

According to the GamersNexus review the price isn't actually THAT uncompetitive compared to DIY.
If this came out a couple years ago it could actually be a good alternative for people who don't really like DIY and just want a pre-built PC that just works out of the box and behaves similarly to a console.
But yeah, in today's market it's way too expensive, I still think it's going to sell out but not because it'll sell like hot cake but because the stock will probably be very limited...
Good on Gaben and co for trying, bad timing and luck killed this before it could even take off.

But why don't consider a AMD 9060 gpu or Nvidia RTX 5060 (more future proofing) + DDR4 Memory build, it just consider the build use same kind of component to justify the steam machine price. Also it just show how valve can't manage provide competitive build price against individual.

 

[winjer]

According to the GamersNexus review the price isn't actually THAT uncompetitive compared to DIY.
If this came out a couple years ago it could actually be a good alternative for people who don't really like DIY and just want a pre-built PC that just works out of the box and behaves similarly to a console.
But yeah, in today's market it's way too expensive, I still think it's going to sell out but not because it'll sell like hot cake but because the stock will probably be very limited...
Good on Gaben and co for trying, bad timing and luck killed this before it could even take off.

I'm sure that PSU on the Steam Machine is better than that crap Apevia for 35$

 

[Magic Carpet]

Hoping the Helix and the PS6 will be of a similar small form factor.
No more giant towers Sony. Get with the cube shape.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Honestly lower price than what i was expecting with the crisis

 

[Loomy]

The price isn't terrible with the context of today's component prices.

Valve also had no reason to release this right now.

The fact that they did doesn't bode well for the long term cost and availability of components.

 

[Tarnpanzer]

 

[asdasdasdbb]

I remember seeing laptops with the 5050 during BF for $799 or less.

Granted that was BF...

Edit: And there was this that was on sale for $1199 not too long ago but no longer available: https://www.newegg.com/asus-gaming-...vme-ssd-gm700tz-nb766-black/p/N82E16883221819

 

[dEvAnGeL]

IGN gave it an 8

Oldest joke in town.

IGNorance starts with IGN.

 

[Witchilich]

Without the AI debacle, even at 750 it would be way weaker than the PS5 Pro

 

[spons]

Atrocious hardware for the price. I don't care about the context or component crisis. In the end it's a product they're selling and it's not a good one.

 

[AJUMP23]

I might be interested in building my own Steam Machine.

It would be a great thing for $400.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Without the AI debacle, even at 750 it would be way weaker than the PS5 Pro

750 was around the cost i expected pre-rampocalypse

 

[Esquie]

Is it really "PS5 level"? I don't have a gaming PC, asking for real.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

1050$ for 8GB VRAM??

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Without the AI debacle, even at 750 it would be way weaker than the PS5 Pro

Which model? $750 for 512gb is still pretty shit.

 

[evanft]

Without the AI debacle, even at 750 it would be way weaker than the PS5 Pro

Jesus Christ. At $750 that would still be $200 more than a PS5 before the price increase.

 

[yogaflame]

IGN gave it an 8

Well it has trans in the steam box promotion video, that is why IGN score is not shocking

 

[Tarnpanzer]

Does this at least support FSR4.1?

If you hook it up to a 4K-TV you need at least decent upsampling or (new)games will look like shit.

 

[Humdinger]

I might get one -- as an entry-level gaming PC. My PS5 Pro will hold me on the console front, but I need something on the PC side. This looks promising, at least as an inexpensive entry level gaming PC. I can upgrade later.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

Hmm, I might build a mini PC for the bedroom TV for $1200.

 

[Roman Empire]

Good thing the Steam Controller is not tied to this.

 

[Paasei]

Way too expensive for what it offers. Not necessarily their fault, I guess. They should've just put the idea in the fridge until the retarded AI hype is over. I would've loved it as a very easy emulator machine that looks nice and compact. But then there's this price and the fact the controller doesn't (apparently) work for non-steam games out of the box.

The best outcome for now would be that Steam OS hopefully becomes an actual OS choice for any PC.

 

[Roman Empire]

*AND FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE A PC*

For the love of everything, don't buy this thinking it's a good entry at PC gaming. This is weaker than a PS5 base lol

 

[VGA-Games]

IGN gave it an 8

The Nintendo Switch 2 got a 7/10

 

[Magic Carpet]

I've watched 2 reviews and I think I'm done.
They need to release a version with no RAM or SSD and let me use my spare parts I have sitting around.
I've got 16GB DDR5 sitting in a closet. And a 512GB sitting in an external usb enclosure. Wasted parts I could use in this cube.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Great. Outstanding