Tariffs, component volatility, and Valve’s tolerance for losses all lead to uncertainty.

The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts’ opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/2330473

    • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Not an experience I would want personally. But that’s one of the differences between me and a PC gamer, PC gamers are happy to put up with a lot more crap with their gaming than I am.

        • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Well at a desk you don’t have to pull out the keyboard from wherever you stash it and put it on your lap every time you want to change games. It’s already there.

          But of course I am comparing to console gaming where this option is a lot more crap in comparison.

            • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Yeah I haven’t tried big picture mode lately but as I remember you still had to sometimes deal with keyboard and mouse to fix options or sometime edit files on the computer to make things work well on a given hardware. But maybe it’s improved since then.

                • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
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                  4 months ago

                  Yeah I’m sure for a lot of PC gamers this will be fine. It remains to be seen if the Steam Machine is really the couch experience I would accept or not. If it involves a keyboard and mouse it’s not. Been there, done that, not going back. I think it will probably be priced outside of what I’d be willing to pay for something of this spec anyway.

                  At the end of the day, consoles do a lot of things very well for the price and are a good value if you don’t have a very large game library. On the Sony store you can still pick most stuff up on pretty steep discounts if you wait a bit and put it on a watchlist.