PonyOfWar

Lithuania maybe. Boring Tricolor and I don’t like the color combination at all.

Some variety of a so-called Pig Butchering Scam.

Nope, but I wasn’t planning to buy one even before the price announcement. I have a solid upper-midrange PC that easily outperforms the Steam Machine and I also have it connected to my projector for living room gaming. Aside from having a neat design and formfactor, a low-spec PC with limited ports that I can’t really upgrade just isn’t appealing to me.

In that particular case, I think the message format might have been an issue. I personally always find audio messages very inconvenient, as I’m not going to annoy everyone around me by listening to them in public. So I’d plan to listen to them later, but I might have forgotten about the message entirely by the time I got home. By the next time I remember the message, it could be an inconvenient timing again etc. A proper text message is almost always preferable.

My point is that you can’t take the price out of the equation. If your standard for “potential customer” is everyone for whom a Steam Machine would be an upgrade, that’s not a useful metric in my opinion. As many of those either can’t afford to pay that much or wouldn’t want to pay it for an upgrade they don’t necessarily need. Dota plays just fine on older systems. My initial statement was in the context of the pricing, not “I wonder if anyone would get it if it were $100”.

If you ignore the price, sure.

I believe it. I’m sure there are millions of people using Steam to play Dota or CS2 on stuff like old laptops. But how many of those are willing and able to spend 1000+ for an upgrade?

Ultimately, stock may be so low that it doesn’t really matter though.

The original Steam Controller and Steam Link went on sale for about 5€ each just before they were phased out. OG Steam Deck also had some smaller discounts.

Yeah, but Steam Deck had an extremely attractive and competitive price when it launched.

All true. If you already have a large library of PC games, it wouldn’t make much sense to get a console. But then you probably already have a PC as well, and can ride it out until the AI bubble pops. That’s certainly what I’m doing, as now is probably the worst time in history to buy new PC hardware.

Of course, some may say it’s only the worst time in history for now…

My guess would be like 600 or so for the base model.

It’s hard to say, but at least before the component shortages, I would have expected the Frame to be the more expensive device. After all, it has 2 included controllers, displays, batteries, tracking cameras etc. But maybe the lower memory and storage (if you go for the 256GB) along with its mobile SoC might help reduce the effects of the component crisis somewhat. I don’t expect it to be below 1k€ though, personally.

I wonder how many people there are that fall in that category but who wouldn’t just buy a much cheaper console instead though.

It’s obviously not Valve’s fault but man, that’s expensive. Wasn’t planning on getting one anyway, but it certainly makes me worried about what the Frame may cost.

Anyone here planning on getting one? I do wonder how much of a market there is for it at this price.

No idea if this game is a joke or a social experiment

It’s a grift - get one idiot to buy it and you’ll have made a profit. Not an original idea either, “I Am Rich” was pretty much the same thing back in 2008.

You need some sort of streaming if you want to play Split-Screen over the Internet. I guess you could use Steam’s Remote Play Together feature with an emulator (I believe there are ways to enable that for non-steam games).

It will be worse. The worst Unity slop still had some actual creative work put into it at some level, at least by the creators of the assets they bought.

That’s GBA/PS2 era, definitely retro.