Comment by hamdingers

3 months ago

A similar spec laptop from ASUS with a 7600S is $988 on Amazon right now, and it comes with a screen, keyboard, mouse, battery, and Windows license.

I'd be shocked if Valve is so out of touch they would kill this thing with an unwarranted price tag, but I guess we'll see.

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johnnyanmac  3 months ago

"Id be shocked if Valve is so out of touch they would kill this thing with an unwarranted price tag"

It happened a decade ago. Wouldn't surprise me.

My bet is it will be similar to steam deck. The starting specs will be somewhat comoetitve to a PS5 Pro but with huge compromises (in Steam Deck'Deck's case, flash storage). A model that competently competes with a proper gaming oc will probably be 1000 or so.

Valve got popularity in the handheld space because everyone else except Nintendo gave up in terms of consoles. That plus seeing the handheld PCs from china pop up showed ample opportunity. I'm not sure the same will apply here.

  • hamdingers  3 months ago

    > It happened a decade ago.

    The Steam Deck shows they learned every available lesson from that endeavor. Why would they retread mistakes they've already proven they know not to make?

    > The starting specs will be somewhat comoetitve to a PS5 Pro but with huge compromises (in Steam Deck'Deck's case, flash storage). A model that competently competes with a proper gaming oc will probably be 1000 or so.

    The specs are already public, the only thing we don't know is the pricing. RTFA

    • johnnyanmac  3 months ago

      >RTFA

      Okay

      >TL;DR: The Steam Machine's specs are on par or better with the PS5.

      So, a ps5 pro with huge compromises? What did i miss here? Comparing a console to a PC isn't apples to apples so just looking at raw specs won't give us the full picture.

      >Why would they retread mistakes they've already proven they know not to make?

      Because they think the road is different today, with more people willing to follow them this time.

      You can take the wrong lessons from success and catastrophically fail next time. Gaming is rife with that trend because of failed experiments, being too early to market, or completely misunderstanding what consumers resonated with.