This is the whole point of Steam OS. It’s not embarrassing for Valve. The only reason this doesn’t already happen with Play Station and Xbox is because its illegal.
Every SteamOS install is a finger in the eye of Sony and Microslop and I’m here for it.
The only reason this doesn’t already happen with Play Station and Xbox is because its illegal.
And because the operating system is proprietary. They can’t build a Playstation or Xbox without having the operating system, and their services builtin to play those games. So its not just illegal, it is technically “impossible” to have a functional alternative to their consoles.
Good, keep up the competition. Make it popular to build and sell “Steam Boxes” or “Steam Machines”. The more the merrier.
Valve wins either way.
And so do linux users
16gb of ram xD
I mean they couldn’t even be bothered to look up what an actual gamer rig looks like before making these shitty ads
For that price you can get a way better prebuilt.
Author couldn’t even be bothered to post a link to the product.
https://www.metapcs.com/products/steamroller
It’s not officially licensed so expect it to disappear.
I’ve seen 4-5 different articles mentioning that this is the steam killer and posting this same brand. This obviously an advertisement.
It’s quite predatory and makes me genuinely avoid this brand because of their marketing practices.
Uhhhh I mean if it was an advertisement they probably would have included a link. Its genuinely an interesting product.
That’s a tactic - saying this from experience working with SEO people. Introducing traffic through Google searches rather than including a link is much more valuable. It’s considered organic traffic. Google values more if users search on their engine and find the product rather than following a link. Also it’s been proven like decades ago; users tend to check (and buy) more in detail if they find the product by themselves. Links have high drop off rate. It’s kinda same idea someone finding a treasure.
Introducing traffic through Google searches rather than including a link is much more valuable
I mean sure. But then you’re counting on them to actually perform those searches.
users tend to check (and buy) more in detail if they find the product by themselves
Yeah no shit. Because the act of searching indicates they’re already interested in purchasing the product. You’re working the logic backwards. It does nothing if they just can’t be bothered to search for it and never find it. You’re just adding friction for no reason.
Its genuinely an interesting product.
Why do you think that? All i see is a regular pc inside a 60 dollar jonsbo case. How is this exciting?
You may have glossed over the part where it comes with SteamOS.
One can install that themselves right? So its basically the same thing as laptops shipping with the latest windows
You greatly overestimate the technical prowess and willingness of the average consumer. Consumers want something they can just plug in and play. It’s why they are entire business built on Linux hardware sales.
So it’s $250 more for a PC with similar gaming performance… How is this better? At least put a 9060 16GB in there…
i haven’t built a pc since say 2004 ish. Started in the 90’s. The changed to sw engineering. Don’t think i would know what’s what these days. My legion go works well with factorio and rimworld but meh at later game satisfactory. sigh.
Even at the current crazy prices, this seems pretty expensive. For this kind of money I’d expect at least a 9060XT.
It’s still $999 for a 7500x3d+5060 at microcenter. Why get “steam machine at home” when you can just get an atx build that runs circles around it all.
If you have some patience it’s very possible to find a deal out there just by looking at slickdeals every now and then until something pops up, but the best time to buy would have been before November '25… but there are always deals from time to time if you are patient and keep looking.
We don’t want Nvidia though.
so sell the 5060 for the ~330 it sells for on ebay, and buy a 9070xt for 550 from walmart or 630 from mc.
It’s not that hard to solve for stuff like that.
The kind of person interested in buying a prebuild doesn’t want to replace hardware or reinstall an OS.
Because most people don’t build their own computers. I agree with you, they should, but it’s not up to us.
Also a lot of people like the form factor. Again I don’t care but that’s what they want.
I totally understand man, but i’m talking about a prebuilt for $999. https://www.microcenter.com/product/699677/powerspec-g528-gaming-pc
I get the form factor, and I don’t think the price is too nuts for that given the overall market for the actual machine. This rando knockoff however that got a ton of free press is just a shitty system overall.
