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It's too expensive, it's just not a good idea for them to have released this. Honestly, they probably should have delayed it for 1-2 years or likely even cancelled it outright.
What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.
People don't want to pay $1050 USD for 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.
I don’t think the target was the same people that would buy a link, the link is for someone that already has a pc. Meanwhile I think the steam machine was meant to compete with the consoles and gather new users into the steam ecosystem and then the price got hammered and took it out of that position.
Sure, I didn't mean that it's a standalone console.
However, at $1050 USD, there's many people who won't be buying this standalone console either.
It would have made more sense to release both at the same time, that way people who are turned off by the $1050 USD (or more) price tag would at least have something they could buy from Valve instead.
Hell, I'd buy a new Steam Link that supports H265 and isn't capped to 1080p at 60 FPS.
The Steam Link was pretty much a dumb terminal for VNC. In what way does it need to have "more capable hardware?"
The Steam Link did not have HW acceleration supported in streaming settings IIRC, and did not support H265.
The Steam Link was capped to 1080p at 60 FPS.
Those are some serious hardware limitations.
I'm not sure anybody really cares about the streaming codec as long as it works with good quality.
But fair enough: I agree it would be nice to have a "Steam Link 2" that could do 4K60 (or better) and (as pointed out in a Machine review video I just watched) support HDMI CEC.