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Looks like some kind of review embargo has been released, ETA Prime’s apparently been sitting on a review model Steam Machine for a month.
YT url once more:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cF6eAM3jhCY
EDIT:
Oh holy shit, we also apparently have prices and a wait list sign up that… apparently closes on June 25th, 10am Pacific time.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
Variant / Price:
512 GB / $1049.00
512 GB + Controller / $1,128.00
2TB / $1349.00
2 TB + Controller / $1,428.00
EDIT 2:
This is all on the same day that we get news that… AMD figured out how to make FSR4 work on RDNA 3 / 7000 series GPUs, and, Steam is currently or just about to push a beta Proton update to Experimental, which will give this thing (as well as any PC w/ AMD 7000 series GPU) FSR4 support for basically any game that currently supports FSR3.
https://www.theverge.com/news/953664/amd-fsr-4-1-upscaling-rx-7000-series-gpus-rdna-3
https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-fsr-4-upscaling-confirmed
So… that’s a lot of news.
Can you clarify what you mean by this?
Are you saying… $10b annually in harware sales?
Using the $1128 price for the 512GB SM + Controller, that’d be uh… ~8.8m units sold annually.
That’s totally absurd, imo.
That’s roughly a quarter of 2025’s PS5 (any variant) console sales numbers.
Valve would have to pivot into basically only/primarily being a hw manufacturer, they’d have to … somewhere between 10x and 100x the amount of money/capital they’re currently using to source components, do assembly and then ship things physically.
They do not have that much money.
Valve has like a total of less than 500 employees, their entire business culture is built around having a very small number of incredibly competent and often multi-domain skilled employees.
They’d have to radically shift the entire fundamental structure of what the company is, to do something like that.
… but perhaps I misunderstand what you mean?
No, I mean they could after expanding their hardware offerings.