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The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are probably delayed, but they still intend to release them in the first half of this year.

They said they planned to have a concrete launch window and pricing by now, but hardware pricing/shortages have made that hard to pin down.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used to think that would be a bad idea (because it's very un-console-like to sell a device that isn't plug-and-play out of the box) but I might be coming around on it a bit if it means a more affordable option.

They'd need to make it very clear to buyers, though.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The future is where ram is now a scarce item and everything comes with a easy pop in/out external ram slot and people are expected to move ram between devices.

It'd be like a SD card reader on laptop on all new hardware, but for ram.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That wouldn't work, too much latency, RAM needs to be as close to the CPU as possible.

Just put the cpu by all the ports?

[–] UnbrokenTaco@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It worked on the n64!