Sure, but they would have to charge $1000+, and nobody but mega-enthusiasts would buy it.

Being able to run games on ultra isn't as important of an issue as some make it out to be, and a good majority of gamers are fine at lower settings.

引用自 Xyyth：

IGN said they had to run some games on medium settings. Yikes! Gotta do better than that. People don't want to buy a bundle of hardware that you have to run on mediocre settings.

I'm sure other companies will sell beefier boxes with SteamOS. Similar to handhelds with SteamOS.

引用自 C1REX：

引用自 Xyyth：

IGN said they had to run some games on medium settings. Yikes! Gotta do better than that. People don't want to buy a bundle of hardware that you have to run on mediocre settings.

I'm sure other companies will sell beefier boxes with SteamOS. Similar to handhelds with SteamOS.

Yep, in fact they already do. Plenty of small form factor PCs out there with beefier hardware. Of course, you're going to pay a premium for them, but all that extra performance doesn't come free.

I'm pretty sure they're gonna sell it for like $599 or something like that.

Medium is amazing at that price.

If you want to play games on high/ultra settings, you need an actual PC. Like a $2500 PC.

引用自 Xyyth：

IGN said they had to run some games on medium settings. Yikes! Gotta do better than that. People don't want to buy a bundle of hardware that you have to run on mediocre settings.

It's designed as a low end, small form factor machine, with 200W power consumption that really isn't bad for a small package with comparatively low power consumption for 2025.

There's also more to games than just graphics settings, my dude. That type of excuse to push better hardware is the type of crap that excuses the constant beating of dead horses that is various franchises that release the same game (gameplay-wise) every few years with marginally better graphics and new gimmicks, more microtransactions and gambling because paying 60+ dollars wasn't enough, etc.

引用自 Chaosolous：

I'm pretty sure they're gonna sell it for like $599 or something like that.

Medium is amazing at that price.

If you want to play games on high/ultra settings, you need an actual PC. Like a $2500 PC.

If you want beefy Steam Machine get a Framework Desktop Mainboard an Inwin Choppin and a ssd and its 1100 dollars but you miss out on quite of bit of polish fromt he Steam Machine.

引用自 r.linder：

引用自 Xyyth：

IGN said they had to run some games on medium settings. Yikes! Gotta do better than that. People don't want to buy a bundle of hardware that you have to run on mediocre settings.

It's designed as a low end, small form factor machine, with a 200W power supply, that really isn't bad for a small package with comparatively low power consumption for 2025.

There's also more to games than just graphics settings, my dude. That type of excuse to push better hardware is the type of crap that excuses the constant beating of dead horses that is various franchises that release the same game (gameplay-wise) every few years with marginally better graphics and new gimmicks, more microtransactions and gambling because paying 60+ dollars wasn't enough, etc.

300w PSU

引用自 Chaosolous：

I'm pretty sure they're gonna sell it for like $599 or something like that.

A fully functional Desktop PC with Steam OS at such a price should work pretty well in my opinion.
It can be a big deal actually.

It's likely targeting a very attractive price point.

引用自 Wolfenburg：

It's likely targeting a very attractive price point.

yeah all the components on all their devices are targeting the 300 600 range which is extremely appealing especially the VR goggles.

At the least, I would have included a thunderbolt port in the design so people could add an egpu enclosure if they wanted.

Maybe it's partly for cloud gaming?

Gamers who play Fortnite type games?

The specs are bad.

They probably charge $1000 anyway.

引用自 Set-115689：

Maybe it's partly for cloud gaming?

Gamers who play Fortnite type games?

The specs are bad.

Its an entry level PC its meant to target people who play Indies, Double A and F2P games as these are most sold types of software.

as for the specs they arent bad so long as the price is fair hardware on Linux doesnt age as fast as Windows so you can see feature creep into older GPUs due to this you can even get FSR4 to work on RDNA1/2 although not perfect.

引用自 Rumpelcrutchskin：

They probably charge $1000 anyway.

I doubt it the BOM is problably around 320 to 450 for them and this is a central machine for their other hardware they need it to be affordable I would say 500 for the 512GB model and 600 for the 2 TB its why we dont see RAM differences between the two as that could have a serious impact on price compared to SSD size.