Crazy Zaul said:
After looking at various versions, it seems the Steam Machine is nothing more than putting the steam brand on any custom PC build and charging way more than its worth for it. The stupid thing is that anyone who would be interested in a steam product would be smart enough to know that all the steam boxes are way overpriced for the specs.
I guess these are just for the rich version of COD and Fifa console gamers to be tricked into buying.
A lot of those $500 models, aren't actually that over-priced. When your talking an i5, GTX660, and 8GB memory at the $500 level, $500 is actually fairly spot on. Don't believe it? Look it up on newegg.com.
The biggest advantage a steam machine has, right off the bat?
$100-180 cheaper than any windows PC.
Thus the 'mummy' who gets asked to buy a 'pc' for their kid, will see a steam machine for $500, and a windows for $600 and go "hmmmm"
Anyone that honestly thought the steambox would do well with what they were shown was delusional. You can't compete with a $500-570 console with your $600+ LINUX (GL trying to sell that to anyone that doesn't already build their own PC) box that can only play linux games or play windows games poorly through wine (and if you dual boot then congratulations they ended up buying a windows-installed PC anyway) with less longevity than a console. The x360 came out in 2004 yet still could play AAA games 9 years later. My 2008 PC? Couldn't even run Guild Wars 2 or Crysis 3, even on the lowest settings.
You aren't limited to using just Linux. You can install windows 7 on it for all they care. it's not Ps4 where your locked into their OS.
The demographic they are aiming at, which has been said before is those who don't build PC's. Those who don't know
jack about building pc's and have no interest in doing so!
Believe it or not. They out populate people who build PCs. 10 to 1.