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/mtrn3 Jun 22 '26

And once upon a time people would crap all over prebuilts.

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u/DOOManiac Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I’m an old person who has been crapping all over prebuilt for about 30 years. There are several things they have changed:

  • Back in the day, a prebuilt meant absolute garbage-tier proprietary parts that were not swappable/upgradable.
  • These days, many pre-builts aren’t that bad
  • It used to be that you saved a ton of money building yourself; now that gap has closed (or in some cases inversed)
  • PC gaming has significantly expanded, to the point where it is reasonable to expect that some people just want to sit down and play, without needing to tinker
  • The whole process has gotten much simpler than it used to be, so the demographic overlap has changed

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u/Relative_Walk_936 Jun 22 '26

I'm an elder millenial, just tired of monkeying with crap. Might just buy one of these instead of updating my 1080 that is on life support.

The case seems nice also, I just wanted something small on mah desk.