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I feel like the biggest thing everyone always overlooks is the amount of researchyou need to do to build a PC. Understanding what motherboard, ram, cpu, and gpu will let you play the games you want is not very clear, especially now we have AMD making good cpus and Intel making Gpus.
The naming conventions are all over the place and the specs on what's best and what's compatible is opaque at times.
Building the PC is easy, but making sure you didn't waste your money by buying a motherboard that won't work on the next generation of chips or you misunderstood the 10+ gpu models distributed by multiple different distributors is also easy.
Yes and no, if you don't feel like doing a bunch of research pcpartspicker and reddit have all kinds of recommended PC builds at every budget level. You can also pay people to just build a PC for you. Also.... pre-built gaming PCs have always been a thing? So I don't really see the hype tbh.
That's also research. Someone building a PC for you will also charge for labor, and that's price parity with a pre-built. The hype is that Valve is front loading a bunch of labor free of MS shitty practices.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to get across. Either you have to do a lot of research or youre doing a "pre-built" configuration. At that point what Valve is offering is at least equal to other pre-built concepts.
A pre-built gaming solution that comes with guaranteed software support, something that MS doesnt even offer BTW, sounds like a really good deal to me.
I guess, but anyone buying a steam machine is gonna have to research the specs anyways, and more exhaustively, check to see if every game they like is supported. I get why open-source enthusiasts are excited about this project and I am to, but in my opinion the cross-section of people who a) aren't willing to build their own PC or even research different options and b) are willing to daily drive Linux are pretty slim. Especially when they find out they can't play BF6.
It's more likely that Steam leans into the "Steam[Device] Verified ✅/❌" labeling. If anything, that makes navigating the marketplace much easier for a mid-performance buyer. They've already done it with steam deck, it's a good angle to pressure both devs and consumers into their device.
People buying this won't be "daily driving" their pc in any sense. I think the idea is unlock steam's library (and marketplace) the massive casual phone/tablet crowd. If I didn't already have a dedicated gaming PC I would definitely be interested.
Nah I still don't get it. Windows PC gamers don't have to think about compatibility at all right now - every major game release is compatible with windows, apart from some Nintendo exclusives. You dont even have to think about it - when a new game is announced I know I will be able to play it on Windows without jumping through any hoops. Even if it's a simple check mark for every game it's still more work, and many games are gonna be blocked because of anti-cheat.
I also think that very few casual phone/tablet gamers are going to be purchasing a dedicated Linux gaming machine that isn't a daily driver computer. Heck, most Americans don't even have a desktop nowadays. I don't think there's a price out for the steam machine yet but we're talking over $1000 right? Probably more like $1500 once you factor in peripherals? That's a TON of money for a casual tablet/phone gamer to drop on something that they won't also be using as a regular computer.
I suspect most people aren't buying it as a daily driver, but as a gaming device. I don't use my steamdeck for computing (although toyed with the idea) for example.