Predict the price for the Steam Machine

[JRPGfan]

bdbdbd said:

JRPGfan said:

I still think it will sell well at 600$.
700$ will be pushing it..... sales will stall, because I think most pc users, will build themselves if it means they can save 100$.

Newegg pc, sold Prebuilt :

i5-13400F + RTX 5060 + 32GB RAM + 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD + windows 11
Comes in a small tower:

^ this is 870$ and  much more powerful than the steam machine is.


There are 100's of PC's like this, around this price range at various sites selling prebuildt pc's.

Why should Valve get to charge anywhere near this for its steam machine?

It shouldn't, and consumers won't go for it.

But the Steam machine is likely to have a controller of some kind. Also, they like money and it's not like consoles wouldn't be really expensive these days, as they'll likely price it competetively to consoles.

Sell it without the controller then. 
I assume most PC users that want to buy a steam machine, already have a keyboard/mouse and a controller of their own.
If they can sell it cheaper that way, they should do that.

Also this is a weaker pc than the base PS5 is.

There already are, consoles out there, competing against the steam machine.
That is the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X. 

If they want to win over the consoler user, they can't have price of entry be much more expensive than the base consoles.