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[โ€“] HER0@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

By what metric? It was never intended to complete with consoles on price to performance.

For PCs, have you seen the price of components? 2GB of DDR5 is already around 200 USD, and a 512 GB M.2 NVME drive is around 90 USD. There is no way that, with the current market, you can buy or build a 400 USD PC that has specs anywhere close to the Steam Machine. Speculative/rumored prices are similar to what you could get for the same priced mini PC.

I'm not sure what your point is. I'm saying that even if it was $400, like many people are/were expecting it to be, it's still severely underpowered. At the actual realistic price point of well over $1000, it's DOA because it's less powerful than even a PS5, which is closer to $400 than $1000.

Speculative/rumored prices are similar to what you could get for a similar spec mini PC.

The difference being that those mini-PCs will be able to play games like GTA6, Fortnite, PUBG, COD, Apex, etc, while the Steam Machine cannot, and you can also upgrade those mini PCs, unlike the Steam Machine. The SOC in it dooms it.