I think they'll be able to get away with a $600-800 price range. Definitely not more than $1000. They should be heavily promoting cheaper games as part of their marketing push too. All they'd have to do is put up a price chart showing how much certain games are on PS or Xbox, alongside Steam pricing. Also, kernel-level anti-cheat has got to go before this thing ships. Not having massive online titles will hurt the Steam Machine's sales, and I've heard Microsoft may be making it harder for the anti-cheat systems to use kernel access after the Crowdstrike incident. Here's to hoping we get Proton-compatible anti-cheat by the time this ships!
500 max, mayyyyybe 549. Zero chance it goes above 600 though. This is what, Switch 2 performance? Below PS5 when were halfway through this gen already means they can't introduce this as cutting edge performance, th t fire the price tag should be reflective of that. And I don't think they want this to flop like the last system.....even though times have changed they still need to price accordingly.
Rich from DF expects around 400 since the messaging regarding their decisions is “affordability” (like the 8 gigs of vram for example)
Ah I got my PS mixed up. But yeah the $400 would be the sweet spot I feel. It's a price that will earn them goodwill from fans too, because there remain people who are console only and if they introduce something that is just below the industry leader (PS5) for a whole 100 cheaper? Console only people don't want to be bothered to replace PC parts and set up settings every time a new upgrade comes out, they want the simplicity of starting a game up and it just playing and not having to tweak anything. Steam/PC has its own exclusives and now they'll get interested console users even more interested. This current gen is also preferable, I know there's a lot of people who don't even see any point in upgrading past what we have now (especially with the price) so if this new entry will have specs around the same? For less money? Yeah this current gen will be the norm for a while.
I think valve want this to sell more than the OG machine, they'll eat the cost for a while to earn that goodwill from positive word of mouth.
Also it's kinda insane to me that people have so little critical thinking that they'd suggest a system that is below PS5 level performance will cost more money than a PS5 Pro lmao
also y'all realize Valve is paying wholesale prices, right? They're not buying these parts at microcenter
But they already did that with the Steam Deck and this is five times more powerful. There's no way they're saying it will compete with entry level PCs and be $400. That's absolutely insane.
Lotta talk about the potential price and not enough talk about why they’d announce a product without announcing a price
they're probably still negotiating the prices with suppliers, seeing how low they can get it. also don't forget, the only way to buy this hardware is directly through valve, so literally no one has to make a profit on this.
the same reason the switch 2 and the ps5 can be the same price and one is 10x more powerful than the other you insipid moron.
I'm sorry I know I'm not coming off well here but I can only stomach so much dunning/kruger running rampant in my area of expertise.
I hope you’re right! I haven’t been paying that much attention - just saw The Verge article that I quoted above and assumed it wasn’t far fetched so I’m glad to know it might be considerably less than what that writer was guessing