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Originally posted by Vidar View Posthttp://store.steampowered.com/app/353390/ The alienware steam machine seems to come with games and a controller already. If that's true and it costs $475 then it's a pretty great deal
Originally posted by Vidar View PostThat "powerful gaming" made me chuckle
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Originally posted by profoundWHALE View PostI have multiple theories:- It's bundled with hardware +/or software like a console is
- Niche: low stock, higher price
- Size. Some of these are really compact
- Labour to get these set up and working okay
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Originally posted by profoundWHALE View PostI have multiple theories:- It's bundled with hardware +/or software like a console is
The alienware steam machine seems to come with games and a controller already. If that's true and it costs $475 then it's a pretty great deal
Key Features:
MASSIVE GAMES LIBRARY ? Play over 980 games locally including Portal 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! and Dying Light. In addition to over 4,000 games available via streaming.
VALUE ? Comes bundled with games and in-game content out of the box
STEAM CONTROLLER - The ultimate accessory to game in the living room is included
MULTI-PLAYER - Play with up to 4 Steam Controllers at once
POWERFUL GAMING ? Equipped with NVIDIA? GeForce? GTX GPU 2GB GDDR5 graphics and Intel? Core processors
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Originally posted by Vidar View PostMost steam machines have terrible price/performance ratio. It's insane to say that the alienware steam machine is the best price/performance there is, when alienware is well known for beefy machines that cost an arm and a leg, and even that one is a bit mediocre (2GB of VRAM, really?).
$700 for a pentium dual core and a 960?
This costs about the same as the alienware but has a god damn 250X with 1GB of VRAM
$900 machine with a 960 when you could very well do one with a better card from AMD
$800 for a 750GTX!?
How does Valve even allow this?- It's bundled with hardware +/or software like a console is
- Niche: low stock, higher price
- Size. Some of these are really compact
- Labour to get these set up and working okay
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Originally posted by iniudan View PostThat one indeed is. =p
$700 for a pentium dual core and a 960?
This costs about the same as the alienware but has a god damn 250X with 1GB of VRAM
$900 machine with a 960 when you could very well do one with a better card from AMD
$800 for a 750GTX!?
How does Valve even allow this?
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Originally posted by johnc View PostThose platforms actually have game exclusives to set them apart and, more importantly, they are the first target for new game releases.
Steam Machines have five-year-old retreads.
The point is................ there is a catch-22 here. Developers are not going to target Steam Machines unless it's an important platform, and that requires a lot of immediate interest up front so that it would take off rather than crash land. So Valve needed to generate a lot of interest in Steam Machines. But they didn't. They brought a knife to a gunfight.
Exclusives are actually a bad thing so I wonder why you mention them as a benefit. They only cause angry users and lost sales.
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Originally posted by eidolon View PostOut of curiosity, given the systems as they are advertised, how many people reading this plan on buying one of the currently advertised Steam Machines within 9-10 months of their respective releases?
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Alternate Steam Machine
Alternate Steam Machine
Price: $1,099 USD
CPU: Intel? Core? i3-4130
GPU: NVIDIA? Geforce? GTX 750Ti
Memory: 8GB DDR3-1600MHz
Storage: 500GB SSHD
Are they out of their mind?
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Originally posted by eydee View PostTell us how the PS4 or Shitbox One is cheaper or arrived with a larger collection on release. They must as well be dead...
Steam Machines have five-year-old retreads.
The point is................ there is a catch-22 here. Developers are not going to target Steam Machines unless it's an important platform, and that requires a lot of immediate interest up front so that it would take off rather than crash land. So Valve needed to generate a lot of interest in Steam Machines. But they didn't. They brought a knife to a gunfight.
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