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Frogger on 17 May 2014
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Burek said:
spemanig said:
GoldenGamer said:
Only owning a WiiU is ridiculous period.Wether you want to hear it or not and that is a fact.No, steam machines are trash.Just use Steam on your PC since you refuse to do the logical thing and buy another console.

Who the hell are you to tell me what's rediculus or not? I know what I'm looking for and PS4, XBO, and regular PCs aren't it. I like Nintendo games, so I bought a Nintendo console. I don't really care about anything else, so if I don't need to spend extra money on products I don't like just to play a couple of games I'm vaguely interested in, I won't.

Don't get me wrong, I literally don't care about missing every 3rd party game. I don't care about "gaming" enough for that to matter to me. Do a lot of those games interest me? Absolutely. Will I lose any sleep over never playing any of them? No.

The only reason I'm even considering a Steambox is because, on paper, it sounds like exactly what I'm personally looking. As someone who literally just plays games casually. If it's not what I want, I just won't buy it. I don't care.

It seems to me that you are the exact type of consumer Valve is targeting with this device. I hope you don't get it the wrong way, I don't mean this as an insult at all, but I believe that you are in a huge minority of people interested in games. And that Steam Machines have no future in gaming.

I completely understand you playing Nintendo and wanting to diversify slightly. But a great majority of people who want to play games will either stay exclusive t their console, or diversify to another console (PS4/XO <-> Nintendo, either direction), or will buy a PC to play games. Very few will see SM as a solution, because it is the worst possible value for money.

I understand that you don't want another console, mainly because of online fees, and that's perfectly fine. But I seriously recommend that you reconsider getting a PC, for any amount if money you are willing to spend on SM you can get a superior PC, and still be able to pkay as many or as few games you like.


Thank you for understanding. I know that I'm in the minority, and I'm fine with that. I think that another thing that I may not have articulated well is that there's a value I place on a console like UI. If I can turn on my theoretical steambox with the controller and do literally do everything pretty comfortably with that controller, out of the box, that already has a lot more value to me personally than a PC. I'm sure there are cheaper pcs for my money, but since that console like native experience holds more value to my personal preferances few than the power I'd lose for the price difference in a regular PC, I won't feel as ripped off by it as many of you probably would.

And I want to make this clear; I like the PS4 and XBO. I like their controllers and everything about them. I've beaten/played games on both. Infamous SS on PS4 and Killer Instinct (AMAZING fighting game) on the XBO. I literally just don't like that you have to pay for online. No matter what way anyone puts it, I just don't think it's fair to charge extra for online. If PS+ worked like it worked last gen, I would have just gotten a ps4. Even though I like the XBO better.