50t = 50 000kg Steam Machine is 2.6kg, if the package adds a little it should be around 3kg. So it’s ~16666 consoles
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My bet - nowhere near to what demand will be.
On the side note, saw a new Steam Controller being sold on ebay for 300eur.
50 T
T what? Tortillas? Trombones? I think they imported 50 Turtles.
50t
The article was probably written by an American to mess that up
50 megagrams
Oh my god, we need to make 'Canadian units of measurement' a thing.
You mean the metric system?
The m stands for tiMbit
One eighth of a tiMbyte, presumably.
... I must study and learn from your curious, foreign ways ...
My only regret in life is that I'll never get to experience timbits
You aren't missing anything, but if you don't try making them yourself then you are. They are basically any generic coffee and donut chain donut balls. Maybe they were better back in the still Canadian days but that's going back too far for my brain.
Oh sorry, let me translate it into freedom units for you!
50T is about 232,558 Big Macs
Fucking thank you!!!
"T" for tonnage. Oftenly abbreviated to talk about cargo
T as in Texans?
Stay strong against the scalpers!
Yep. Load up your Steam Wallets prior to future sales instead of trying to enter your credit card info. You'll have better luck with the payment being processed if it doesn't have to go through a third party.
Coming from someone who regrets not doing that prior to the Steam Controller launch.
Don't regret it cause a lot of people did that and still couldn't get through. The endpoint that everyone was stuck on affected every payment method. Still gives you more options I guess.
I never thought of that, but I also don’t want to put hundreds of dollars in my Steam wallet
Yeah, this is my main concern for the Frame release. I don't want a "blocked for suspected fraud" credit card payment being the reason I miss the first few minutes of the reservation window, but I also don't want hundreds of dollars just sitting in my Steam Wallet in case I miss the window anyway. First world problems.
T means Ton, a unit that nobody uses to measure "game consoles" in any other context.
You mean it's not 50 trillion consoles? Enough for everyone on the planet to have 6,000? Damn.
It clearly means 50 Teraconsoles.
Is a Teraconsole one million times better than a Sega Megadrive?
I'm just gonna gonna go with 'yes'.
I'd rather have one steam machine than one million Sega Megadrives, so that checks out.
It is my pleasure to confer upon you a totally real and legit Associates degree in Economics from the University of Lemmy.
Other than… importing. Are you for real?
The headline can add 3 characters instead of making everyone guess what the letter T means
I am kind of mind blown that people are having problems figuring out T means tons..
Maybe it’s because it’s unusual to measure game consoles in tonnes (in the media) that we look for another explanation.
And I knew a tonne (1000kg) to be "t", this capital T is new to me. I just checked wikipedia apparently there’s a fuckton of different tons.
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Ton, or tonne? There's a difference
Ton because it's the U.S.
The article says "50 Tonnes" tho, so now what...
This article says tonnes, but if you go to the original Verge arrival it’s tons.
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Honestly, it feels like if this was Steam Machines, valve would have waited and released them bundled with the controller. I'm assuming them launching the controller by itself was because they didn't have Steam Machines ready to go yet.
So I'm assuming this means this is more likely to be the Steam Frame or Steam Deck, but we'll see.
I think they're literally just shoving shit out the door as fast as they can, and their initial production runs were ... kind of done in the middle of rampocalypse/tariff nonsense, round #(i forget).
Because you'd have to be an idiot to not realize the world economy is headed for a Great Depression, therefore they need to make money ASAP on hardware, before people's budgets contract dramatically.
I also think they seem have to have just genuienly underestimated demand.
I don't think we'll be seeing newly made Steam Decks soon, iirc, they retooled the actual Steam Deck facility ... to make the Steam Controllers.
Probably more likely to see the Steam Machine and Frame, and then a Steam Deck 2 at some point in the future, presuming we do not at that point live in the Fallout timeline.
i wonder if the frame would also be declared as 'game console' or if all of those are steam machines
An article I read on The Verge earlier indicated it could be the Steam Frame
Don't you go getting my hopes up...
Steam deck too
Can't see any reason it wouldn't be. Valve said it's a "streaming-first" device but it can also run games locally, a la Meta Quest.
So I guess at this point the Steam Controller and Steam Machine... arguably count as a 'small batch, bespoke' game console/device?
Artisanal, farm-to-table entertainment systems.
... It does also at least attempt to provide you with choice, curated content as well.
I love that they had fifty tons of controllers made and y'all just decided that wasn't gonna be enough 🤣
kudos to valve for putting in the effort to design hardware people actually want to use.
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