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Congratulations! Even though they are overpriced, they are the right size and wife approved aesthetically. They are also more functional than a console. I still want one. But I got waitlisted hardcore. I hope you enjoy yours. Do write up your first impressions and a detailed review after you’ve had some runtime with it. It’ll help us less fortunate souls decide to wait out the waitlist, or go build something on our own cheaper but less slick looking :)
I will not call it overpriced because the current PC market is crazy because of AI. Even Valve isn't happy with the price.
Overpriced would mean that Valve would be making a significant profit. They will not.
Yeah, the fact that they are using bespoke parts, but still barely come in above the independent build cost tells me that they aren't raking billions off of this. I'm fine with the price. Expensive, yes, but so is everything else.
It is 'overpriced' compared to a desktop in the same way laptops are 'overpriced' compared to desktops. Making things smaller increases cost, especially when there is a lot of heat dissipation needed.
Yeah the real money is on the backend when people can now impulse buy games from their couch
My main issue with it is that’s it’s not upgradable and does not support eGPUs.
Something can be overpriced and the company can still be losing money on it. How much profit the company making it makes is entirely irrelevant to the usability for the end consumer.
If they made a bunch of poor choices that made the cost of the product go up that doesn’t change the fact that I could’ve gotten more for my money from a better designed product. Like they could make the entire chassis a solid copper cube and that could cost say $1000 alone. And it could cool like shit. If they did then this $2k copper steam machine would be extremely overpriced.
They are overpriced and the current PC market is also overpriced.
I got mine yesterday. Copying my thoughts from a comment in another thread:
Don't mind my essay here. TLDR: I love this thing.
I got mine yesterday. It's the 512GB with no controller since I already got the controller separately and the 2TB version felt like an especially bad deal.
I was initially on the fence about the price and reserved just to get into the queue to make the actual buy decision later. I was expecting more people to have thoughts on it out before my spot in the queue came up, but I ended up getting my purchase email very quickly on 6/30. I let the email sit for a day but ended up deciding to pull the trigger for a few reasons:
One, I've owned every first-party Valve device so far, and all of them have been more than the sum of their parts. Two, I wanted a HTPC, travel, and LAN party PC that's a bit less restraining than a laptop. Three, being a bit of a performance snob has been distracting me away from actually gaming and I wanted to get back into the no nonsense side of PC gaming again. And four, I don't mind spending a little extra money advancing Linux, repairable hardware, etc.
I feel like I have to acknowledge reviews from the PC space have been largely negative, but they seem to be undervaluing a lot: the form factor (a 6" cube is still tiny compared to almost all other SFF builds), performance per volume (almost the entire cube is a heat sink), and the benefits of more standard performance targets we've already seen with the Deck.
As for first impressions, the device is packaged well, and unboxing was very satisfying. I did have some trouble getting my controller paired since it was already paired to my existing desktop PC and plugging it in directly wasn't enough to get around that like I expected, but looking up how to pair it to multiple PCs got me past that.
I spent a few hours testing a mix of light to demanding games, and I'm more than happy with what it can do. I haven't tried gaming beyond 1080p yet, but I'm going to be very selective about when and how I do that. 512GB is proving to be plenty of space for what I'm playing at any one time, and I think that would still be true if I didn't have other devices acting as additional storage.
I feel like all my expectations above have been validated, and now I'm really looking forward to getting the Frame. I want to make a travel backpack or suitcase with foam cutouts for the whole set.
so anyways, how did you become a millionaire?
Skip avocado toast.
Haven't they told you?
Also, I think you need to brew your own coffee too.
Aaaaah, you're going for the second million.
I understand.
Door to door RAM salesman.
What was the email subject line, if you’d be so kind as to share? I’m in the queue too and wanted to add an email rule to flag when that email eventually shows up.
This was mine:
You're officially in the reservation queue for Steam Machine 2TB
I assume if you do not put the 2TB, you'll hit any of the variations you have selected... unless they change it.
That looks like the email you get when you initially reserve it. I think we're looking for the email subject line for the "Its time to buy it" email so we don't miss it. I'm interested in that one too.
On the initial Steam Deck, there was a popup in Steam itself as well when it was time to buy, i'd be curious if that's still the case.
Please confirm your Purchase Information for Steam Machine 2TB
that was the subject line for the "you have 72 hours" email.
Additionally it shows up in your steam cart until you buy it or remove it. I had a game in my cart and went into the cart a day later and they were both in there.
Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Tell me what’s the first game you’re going to play! :)
I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3, as it crashes my desktop so I've not been able to play it for the last year or two.
I’ve been a patient gamer on that front, waiting for it to dip below 40% discount.
…any day now.
I'm waiting for the gog $4.99 deal in 15 years.
It's got to be a cozy game that doesn't stress the hardware. Probably Stardew Valley or similar :p
Put it in your ass!
Show us what you're really about...
I'm on the waiting list, and boy is it annoying to see them being listed on ebay
Such a great looking piece of tech. Looks like it belongs on a better timeline than this shit one.
first post of this type i see that isn't clothes iron or cleaning tool
Happy PC gaming !
Ugh happy for you. I really had in my head that being in the reservation queue meant that I would have mine by now!
Sigh.
I got my invite to purchase email midweek. And I didn’t read the fine print like a chump… I selected every model, and the model they offered me was of course, the priciest.
So I have to let it pass me by because I thought I’d get the option for the cheaper one.
Enjoy. I’ll get the next steam train. Your model.
Maybe RAM will be cheaper by then.
😭
Neat, hope you like it! I was interested in one as an upgrade to my Steam Deck since I mostly use it docked, but even before the RAMpocalypse pricing, when Valve said it would be priced like a PC I knew it would too rich for my blood. I'm guessing it was supposed to be around $750, still too high for me to justify.
Congrats! Mine also came yesterday. I grabbed the 2 TB with Steam controller. I think you and I were in the same batch of emails!
Glad you got it. Please give us a review if you are so inclined