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| osed125 said: Steam machines are being made by 3rd party companies, meaning that there could literally be hundreds of types of combinations. This are just the ones that Valve decided to choice for the prototypes. So comparing this specs to consoles doesn't really make much sense. |
I believe the issue is that these are just PCs and I do not see any PC manufacuture who is not going to make a profit from the Hardware. So what Valve is doing is having OEMs build linux based PCs with their customizations to the OS. Not really sure if this is a great approach because when everything is said and done, price will still be an issue. People that already have a PC, can upgrade the parts cheaper than buying a new unit just to run Steam OS. Any PC the price of the PS4 or X1 will be gimped as heck and probably will not be at the level of most people who game on their PC anyway.
For PCs now that are coming out with just decent specs they are 800 or better and if they try to reach the same form factor of the PS4 or X1 they are expensive.
It should be interesting if such systems take off. It appear there is way more growth in the mobile space than people buying Linux based PCs.
