Terrible price. I guess entry level is not an option in the current situation, so they're embracing milking whoever is willing to get milked. If I remember correctly, Steam Deck sold out soon after its price increase, so maybe they're expecting this to do well too.

The only good thing about this is that since it's PC, at least you have options. The bad part is that the options are bad too, but I guess they're not as bad.

If the market's already shying away from a $650 PS5, a $1050 Gabecube doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell.

I didn't even think of that you know, they really should've just cancelled it cause what is this?

I never had high hopes for this as I felt it had the same core issues the OG steam machines did but wow this is horrendous value.

What's also wild here is that if your care about specs and not flexibility/having your Steam library, PS5 Pro is cheaper.

$1609 for the cheapest model without a controller here in Australia; $2228 for the 2TB model with a controller.

So for even the entry level cost, I could buy say a Switch 2 and a Series S, and still have like $300 spare.

For the 2TB model, I could buy a used car.

Same way the Steam Deck’s install base of 5 million was going to crush the Switch and Switch 2. 

I honestly don't expect it to sell more than say ~1m units lifetime or so.

The PS5 Pro is many times more powerful machine too.
SteamMachine is weaker than the Base PS5 (by like ~15%).

Ironically, the Steam Machine is spiking up PS5 and PS5Pro sales.

I’ve suggested that game companies should sell games on individual PCIe sticks that plug into an external slot. Bring cartridges back. 

That wasn’t going to happen even before the AI bubble sent storage prices to the moon, but still. 

Yeah, this is too much. I’m out.