Diplomjodler

The frame is a gaming computer in its own right but can also be used as a display. There’s nothing wrong with the Quest from a technological standpoint. It’s just that you’re forced into the closed Meta ecosystem in order to use it. Many people don’t want to be there these days. Steam hardware tends to be open and moddable. Let’s hope they keep that up with the upcoming products.

You can sell it all you want, you’re not going to make me hate EA any more than I already do.

In 1995 I bought 4 MB of RAM for DM 200, which, adjusted for inflation probably works out to about €200 in today’s money. I’d say, prices have come down quite a bit, since.

Your guess is as good as mine. Only time will tell.

I think you’re wrong. It appeals to gamers who want a simple living room PC and it appeals to console people who just want to plug something in and start playing. If the price is right, this may be huge. Also, it would actually be an upgrade for a lot of Steam users so there’s another huge market.

I think it’s unrealistic they’ll price it at $500. I’d be pleasantly surprised if it’s $600. Above $700 things will get difficult, though. If you can build a more powerful PC for the same money, the cube loses much of its appeal. That goes for both nerds and normies, because those will buy an Xbox instead.

That sounds like a reasonable compromise.

I don’t think it would make sense for them to sell it at a loss. On the other hand, they don’t have to make a huge profit from it either. I really hope it’ll come down to a range of about €600. That would make it a no-brainer for me.

If that’s how you want to see it, that’s fine.

Have you heard of irony? Especially considering the sub this is in, I thought it would be obvious.

Have you heard of the Steam Deck? Things aren’t the same as they were ten years ago.

It’s for people to play on their living room TV. Most of those don’t do 120 Hz.

Prreciousssss…

We wants it!

Quite so. The cheapest card that I’d put any kind of real AI workload on is the 16GB Radeon 9060XT. That’s not what I would call budget friendly, which is why I consider a budget friendly AI GPU to be a mythical beast.

The budget friendly AI GPUs are in the shelf right next to the unicorn pen.

This is the way. Money will always get peoples’ attention.

The Steam machines flopped because of game compatibility, or lack thereof. That can be pretty much considered solved. These days a steam console would be much more attractive.

And a Steam console to go with it, please.

Too late! Next thing you’ll be installing Arch on your granny’s computer and wearing UNIX socks.

Oh noes! You have caught the communism now!