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Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But you won't get CEC or the integrated Steam Controller dongle of course.

Or the small form factor.

I admit, I was hoping Valve's production numbers would have brought economies of scale to make the smaller form factor a non-issue, but that doesn't seem to be how it turned out

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wish they could scale up massively. They still seem to operate under the assumption that they're a small player. Though according to one interview (I think with Tested) they couldn't even source the numbers of memory they wanted. On top of the horrendous price.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

They still seem to operate under the assumption that they're a small player.

In terms of hardware, they kinda still are. They're not shipping out nearly as many units as the Switch, XBox, or Sony. Sure, some of that is simply their lower volumes, but they also don't have monopolies via exclusives due to PC being an open ecosystem. After the Steam Deck launched, plenty of other manufacturers either updated or developed new handheld PCs to compete.

Also, scaling up manufacturing is expensive and risky. Ram manufacturers rapidly scaled up production about 10 years ago to address a shortage, and they all got burned with overstock (and accompanying low prices) when the shortage ended. That's part of why they don't want to scale up again to deal with the current ram shortage, because they know they'll get burned again in a year or 2 if they do.

Plus, Valve has already stated they don't want to own the entire PC hardware market, they want to expand the ecosystem and have multiple manufacturers competing for customers. If the Steam Machine is enough to pressure XBox, Sony, Nintendo, etc. to turn future generations of consoles into mere prebuilt PC's they'd be happy with that