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Valve confirms Steam Machine will be priced ‘like a PC with the same level of performance’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] Knightfox@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

This is going to come off as shilling for Valve, but it isn't my intention.

I could entirely see Valve pricing the Steam Machine relatively affordably and this statement is ultimately a dig at how overpriced pre-built PCs and consoles can be.

"The Steam Machine outperforms 70% of current user PCs...we neglected to say that the majority of user PCs are overpriced for what they deliver."

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the price. From what I've read, and watched, its not going to be competitive like the Deck - it'll be more expensive than the current consoles. I just have a feeling people are underestimating it this time around.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Even though LTT said valve gave a cold stare at a $500 price tag, the BOM estimate is sitting around $420 (compared to $300 for the deck).

If they follow the same path as the steam deck, they could still comfortably sell the base model at $600 or $550 if they want to get aggressive with consoles.

Valve basically broke even with the base model steam deck, so I'm assuming the remaining $100 per unit cost is all the external stuff like production shipping etc. They make profit on the higher level models by charging more for storage and OLED.

Valve's plan was never to compete with consoles, but they're sitting on a golden opportunity here with Xbox flailing in the water and being able to price match without loss. Their major blocker is the anti cheat holdouts though, and I don't think they'll be willing to change unless steam machine itself becomes very popular, which forms an annoying loop.

I think they're probably having some great arguments behind the scenes on what point exactly they should settle on based off of the public response everyone is giving from this statement lol.