Can Steam Machines Take on PS4/XBO? (Creators Have their Say)

[Chazore]

PC gaming is certainly getting popular and better for a myriad of reasons but for the life of me I can't see Steam machines doing extremely well, sure they'll probably sell a few units, maybe in the thousands but I just don't see them becoming as main stream due to the fact that:

They are Linux based with the OS and Linux doesn't have every single game under the known sky like Windows does.

There are around 20-25 different designs in total which will confuse most would be customers and too many choices can and will confuse/aggitate people from buying your product, we like having options but too many just screws with the formula.

Lastly the prices are stupidly silly with most units ging past the £400 range to £1000, couple that with the many different models with different hardware that performs differently with different prices and you have yourself a complete and utter clusterfuck just waiting to unfold and it will for sure.

I studied e-business for around 2 years (quite an interesting course) and despite Valve/others trying their best at swotting, they still didn't account for customer choices, what's better for them than what options can we drown them with, what price suits them as a whole, what hardware would best suit the livingroom user, instead they split this all apart into tiny chunks and a user built PC will still trump all of these aspects.

Valve has had plenty of time to correct this but they seem cock sure that having different prices, different hardware, different units is somehow going to get console gamers into PC gaming within the livingroom, I don't think it;s going to happen the way they think it will, I believe it'll blow up in their faces slightly but it will likely blow up with the other companies like Alienware much more because they are dumping eggs into a basket that they don't know will break.

At the end of the day it's still better to just build yourself a PC with the parts you want from the places you can aquire them from at a cheap price and they will cost and perform much better than these SFF units.