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Linus Tech Tips “disappointed” Steam Machine won’t be priced like a console - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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“I can’t tell you what the price will be, because I literally don’t know,” he said on the November 15 episode of the WAN show.

“When I said I’m disappointed it isn’t going to follow a console pricing model, where its subsided by the fact that manufacturer is going to be taking 30% of every game sold on it over the lifespan of this thing, because I feel that would be a more meaningful product, they asked what I meant by console price and I said $500. Nobody said anything, but the energy in the room wasn’t great.”

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[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's a bit of a hard sell in an environment where being economical is the first thing on people's minds. That's a very niche audience. People who don't want to build their own PC, don't want a normal prebuilt, and are okay being less powerful than a console, and will not to mention not play a ton of multiplayer games out of the box. It's not going to capture anyone from the console market and its not going to capture the hardcore PC nerds.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean "people who don't want a normal prebuilt"? That's exactly what they're going to be selling — a normal prebuilt from a vendor people trust with the economy of scale to sell it for a competitive price. It's got an unusual form factor and some fancy hardware, but functionally that's what it is.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It runs Linux out of the box not Windows, so it's not normal. Not to mention it's barely upgradeable, HDD and RAM only. I know some prebuilts lock you out of upgrading but you can buy plenty that you can fully modify yourself.