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Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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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

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[–] 54 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

People seriously underestimate the performance that you can pull out from some medium-level hardware with an highly-optimized OS. I mean, just watch what they were able to archive with the Deck.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Seriously! Just started replaying cyberpunk on my base model deck and it is buttery smooth! Very impressive for an igpu!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, but also consider you are running a more updated, optimized version of Cyberpunk than what everyone experienced when it first launched (and more optimized drivers/FSR/etc). So the true performance gains of mid-low range hardware is masked by the fact that the game is not so horribly unoptimized anymore.

    In other words, the actual performance increase of hardware over the years is perceived to be higher than it actually is due to other factors.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    But the existence of a steam machine would incentivize releasing games in this kind of optimized state.

    You can’t optimize “for pc” because “pc” could mean any configuration of components. Obviously you can optimize, but you can’t “target”, you can’t say “we got it running at 60 fps stable on ‘’pc’.

    You can “optimize” for a pre defined steam machine. You can say “we got it running at 60fps stable on the stock steam machine”

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