Anyone else think Steam Machines are going to be a massive flop?

[method114]

whatever said:

method114 said:

whatever said:
I'll probably get one eventually. It makes sense if you want PC performance on your living room widescreen TV. Most people don't have their PC hooked up to their main TV.

It still doesn't make sense.  I would rather just build the PC myself.  It only makes sense to people who want a PC hooked up to their main TV and don't know how to build one. That's a very small amount of people steam machine is going to flop big time.

It will depend on price.  If the price is similar or only slightly more than building one, then it makes total sense.

It will certainly make it more marketable but it will limit people beacuse they'll be restricted to using steam OS. When you can install windows 7 and have an HTPC/gaming machine hooked up to your TV. I guess you could just reinstall windows 7 on a steam machine to I don't see why that would be an issue. Still doesn't seem like something that's going to take off I just don't see it.