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French retailer mocks Steam Mcahine by annoucing "Stim Machine" with Radeon RX 9060 XT at €999 Source: LDLC

It is a bigger, don’t have the Steam Controller dongle integrated, and you need to manually install SteamOS on it.

But you get a machine that can be upgraded way more easily than the Steam Machine, and a better GPU from the start.

  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The average user doesn’t want to install an OS though, that’s the whole point of selling it as a complete, pre built package.
    Sure, this is a little more powerful than the steam machine, but it lacks all of the actual selling points of the steam machine.

    • rafoix@lemmy.zip
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      21 days ago

      What is the selling point of a steam machine.

      “Do you want to overpay for obsolete hardware that can barely run most modern games? Are you really stupid and cannot use a USB drive to make a very simple software installation that already has tons of step by step instructions freely available online?”

      • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        21 days ago

        You are seeing it as a PC. It’s not. You have to see it for what it actually is: a console. You compare this to other consoles, not to a PC.

        It’s really fucking sad that in making this thing repairable, and relatively modifiable, people now expect everything else a PC has and compare it to a PC unjustly.

        It’s not a prebuilt either. If it were, it would have a sticker on the CPU IHS, the power cable wouldn’t be plugged in internally, and the PSU would catch on fire on the 69th boot.

        But let’s see anyway:

        • repairability
        • freedom of modification
        • “lifetime” support in the form of security updates, if I remember right; that older steam console still receives updates like 9 years later
        • shared library of games, as opposed to a locked down ecosystem like the PS5 or Xbox S
        • when it dies you’ve got yourself a linux server because again, it’s not locked down
        • all parts are replaceable, clearly labeled
        • you can easily upgrade RAM and storage, and they aren’t that weird rare form factor some prebuilts use, it’s just an LPDDR stick I think
        • it’s pretty damn quiet
        • it’s tiny as hell; in a living room this really matters
        • Valve support is known to be top notch
        • no online pay subscription
        • an open source arch-based OS that you can know for a fact is not spying on you?

        But what exactly are the points in buying a PS5, for example?

        • having to pay to play online?
        • having a dead box after it becomes unsupported?
        • getting a shit controller that breaks if your little brother breaths on it wrong and that you can’t fix because it’s a POS?
        • being locked into an ecosystem forever?
        • have 0 privacy and need to agree to 10 billion TOS’s every time you do anything? That POS definitely records ALL the data it can about you. I think Steam does too but I think the level of scumminess is not the same.

        All just so your games run a little better?

        If you don’t like it don’t buy it.

        If you have a PC you’re not the target audience in the first place.