gaming Presenting the Steam Machine.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,165]

I presume these are the first looks we get of the various Steam Machines, so here we go! Also with a November release date apparently.

 

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/these-are-the-steam-machines-landing-this-holiday-season-1287235

 

Still undecided if I want to invest in this...

[Night Wing 387]

it's shiny, so very shiny, shinyness!!!

[Throwaway19573639385 764]

I'm not interested in the machines themselves but I am very interested in their Debian-based OS. I'm getting so sick and tired of this trash OS microsoft has put together but it's all you can use if you want to play the more popular games.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

This thing is going to fail.

 

Called it.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,165]

This thing is going to fail.

 

Called it.

 

I'm afraid you may be right. This just has '3DO' written all over it at this point; though I hope I am wrong.

 

In any case I may just end up foregoing a Steam Machine and go with a high-end gaming laptop.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

I'm afraid you may be right. This just has '3DO' written all over it at this point; though I hope I am wrong.

 

In any case I may just end up foregoing a Steam Machine and go with a high-end gaming laptop.

It actually has nothing to do with the 3DO.

 

Casuals won't buy it because it's expensive and less easy to use than, say, a phone.

 

Console gamers won't buy because it isn't a real console.

 

PC Gamers won't buy it because they have a PC.

 

Valve's a smart company. They should silently stop it now.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,880]

This thing is going to fail.

 

Called it.

This is going to sound mean-spirited, but I certainly hope it does just as negative karma for the nasty shit that Valve pulled just a while back when they basically stole money from a bunch of people with nothing in return. How that hasn't gotten more press is beyond me.

 

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I won't buy it. I'm pretty miffed at Valve as a whole right now, and I'm starting to look at GoG for my games more and more because of this. Furthermore, I have a PC that can run a lot of games pretty well (especially since I tend to lean to older games) and I'm going to be hitting a rough spot financially when I get to college here soon in all likelihood. Just not feeling it, honestly.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,165]

It actually has nothing to do with the 3DO.

 

Casuals won't buy it because it's expensive and less easy to use than, say, a phone.

 

Console gamers won't buy because it isn't a real console.

 

PC Gamers won't buy it because they have a PC.

 

Valve's a smart company. They should silently stop it now.

 

My comparison to the 3DO has some merit.

 

1. Like it was with the 3DO, the Steam Machine is going to exceed the budgets of a lot of gamers. Of course the lower range Machine should be close, but last I checked it will still be more than the PS4 and offer less gaming capabilities than the higher brand of Steam Machines.

 

2. Sort of similar to the 3DO, the Steam Machines are being built by companies other than the parent company itself. As a result, these other companies had to recover their losses and price the 3DO upwards.

 

3. General uncertainty of market value vs. the reigning console companies. At the time of the 3DO Sega and Nintendo were the top-dogs, and the 3DO, while having some limited success, was a question mark for the most part; especially with the Saturn & PS1 comin out in time. The Steam Machine is facing similar questions in the face of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

 

4. How many people knew of the 3DO and how many people know of the Steam Machine?

 

5. The 3DO and Steam Machine were/are backed by ideas that sound like they have strong foundations, but the former failed even with the idea. I'm afarid the Steam Machine will face the same fate.

 

Of course these are my general thoughts.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

This is going to sound mean-spirited, but I certainly hope it does just as negative karma for the nasty shit that Valve pulled just a while back when they basically stole money from a bunch of people with nothing in return. How that hasn't gotten more press is beyond me.

 

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I won't buy it. I'm pretty miffed at Valve as a whole right now, and I'm starting to look at GoG for my games more and more because of this. Furthermore, I have a PC that can run a lot of games pretty well (especially since I tend to lean to older games) and I'm going to be hitting a rough spot financially when I get to college here soon in all likelihood. Just not feeling it, honestly.

GOG is amazing.

And they have a lot of older PC games. The good stuff.

[long gone 8,929]

I'm afraid you may be right. This just has '3DO' written all over it at this point; though I hope I am wrong.

 

In any case I may just end up foregoing a Steam Machine and go with a high-end gaming laptop.

Honestly, high-end gaming laptops aren't worth it. Take it from someone who used to own one. You know the common misconception that gaming PCs need to be upgraded every year? While it's not so true with desktops, it absolutely is with laptops. By the second half of 2014, my 2013 MSI GT60 0ND was struggling to play the latest games at respectable settings (and then respectable frame rates, even with the lowered settings), and it was just over a year old.

 

OT: Honestly, I can see where the 3DO comparison comes from. Only a handful of the machines meet the $400 - $500 price point of the "traditional" home consoles with only two of those machines just barely passing the price:performance ratio (one of them has an R9 270, which is honestly pretty cool for a $500 machine) and those smart enough to know to build a PC of their own instead of getting a prebuilt will opt to do that instead. While I would like to see the consoles fall (especially the PS4, that thing's dominance is built upon a throne of lies), I don't believe the Steam Machines, or at least the first wave of them, is going to be the way to do it.

Edited March 19, 2015 by DARING

[Celli 4,352]

Yeaaah, no. I have zero interest in this "PC" I have a custom rig, why would I want to waste $500 on a PC that I can't upgrade? Aside from the CPU and RAM, but if a game comes out I want, but can't run, I'm screwed. It has a desktop CPU, and a Laptop GPU. How does that work?

[SCS 7,537]

I honestly don't see the point of something like this. Why not just build a high-end gaming PC?