I got a place on the 512GB with Controller list, and got an email a few days after they started. I ordered it on Friday the 3rd and got it today on Thursday the 9th. The tracking codes were all over the place and gave different estimates depending which branch of each company I used. Steam claimed it was shipped when the courier said they hadn’t got it so I was worried for a few days. But this morning Royal Mail (UK customer) sent me an email saying it would arrive today, while GLS said it would arrive tomorrow.
Safe to say I’m happy to have it now and be playing games!
Yeah. I tried gaming PC for a while. Have fun with random issues.
Same as a nas. Everyone tries building their own, and ends up going turnkey eventually
The steam machine IS a pc. I’ve also been “pc gaming” and haven’t gone crazy or had unsolvable issues. When you can’t fix something it’s usually user error or ineptitude.
When you can’t fix something, it’s usually “the OEM is doing something insane in their ACPI code”, or “you have a cracked MLCC somewhere, which pushes power delivery barely out of spec and some net doesn’t make timing under complex microarchitectural conditions”.
That has absolutely never happened to me in over 2 decades. Sucks for you I guess.
Sorry, that’s what I mean. I mean custom pc
There’s no reason why a steam machine would be inmune to software/driver/hardware issues. I mean, it’s basically a laptop in a different form factor and laptops hace issues too.
Nobody said that
I think the confusion here is that you see gamers as nerds who all want ray tracing and photorealism
They aren’t. Some are
But steam directly tests that hardware in steam os, so less likelihood of issues. Also, not all hardware is compatible with each other when building either
I’m literally playing nfsu 2 and signalis. I also think ray tracing is dumb af and we’re nowhere near phitorealism. So no, you’re dead wrong.
However, I also want to play the latest RE and Control Resonant when it comes out. Not to mention that I play these games on a 1440p 170hz screen and would like to upgrade to alienware’s new ultrawide oled. Something like the steam machine would not be enough for that.
Issues like what, exactly? Unless you have a pc that’s over a decade old, you won’t have any “hardware issues”.
There’s this thing called hwpartpicker. You should use it. Hw incompatibility isn’t rocket science.
I worked at a computer store for a few months. Tools like PC part picker likely aren’t always 100% accurate… And, even small things like cases can cause issues.
And, you still can have weird issues. I bought an omnibook and was getting random stalls. I’m still not sure it was fully because I didn’t have enough ram. You shouldn’t, but it does still happen.
Nobody is forcing you to buy it. But a lot of people just want a turnkey solution (like I said) where everything just works with minimum effort. I actually play games on a 4k tv… using a rog ally.
It’s not like steam likely won’t update their steam machine specs again when it makes sense either. It’s unlikely they’d run the same cycle length as Xbox, Nintendo or Sony
At the very least, I think part of the reason, like the steam deck is to kick off other similar products too. Even if you don’t like the steam machine there will likely be others which are preinstalled and target steam