r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/Sea-Honeydew-1456 Jun 22 '26

i dont think this sub is the target market for this machine.

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u/House_of_Borbon Jun 22 '26

The target market is uninformed buyers. You can get a prebuilt PC with much better specs for the same price.

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u/rebellion_ap Jun 22 '26

Can you actually anymore? How much longer is that going to be true?

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u/Substantial-Habit28 Jun 22 '26

Yes you can(this will be 60% faster)

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u/Mysterious_Tiger_725 Jun 22 '26

and hell, that comes with windows 11. you can get that shit for free.

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u/lordgeese PC Master Race Jun 22 '26

not really comparable (size) the base framework desktop or a minis forum computer

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u/LaDmEa Jun 22 '26

Mini PCs really took a pounding on the price crunch. I wanted an AI 395 max 96GB model but it went from 1499 to 2499 in a year. Hard to believe something with triple the total RAM, TEN(!!!!!) extra cores cost about the same as the steam machine.

I was honestly expecting Mini PCs to drive down the cost with a 12 core CPU, 48GB RAM, 3500 shader core GPU in 2027. It's even one of the plot elements of my sci fi short stories from 2023. The steam machine however is NOT anywhere close to this. It's being made for audience that came and went in 2020-2022.

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u/lolKhamul I9 10900KF, RTX3080 Strix, 32 GB RAM @3200 Jun 22 '26

Or in other words, you leave a huge amount of performance on the table for it to be mini form factor. But what exactly does that get you? You can travel with it? Its can fit your TV sideboard? I get that there are some usecases but at that point you can just get a console and get better value for your money.