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"Red line of death" - Steam Machine encounters its first major hardware fault and it's already got a fitting Xbox-inspired nickname (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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I think the severity of this issue will be determined by its frequency, but the comparison to the red ring of death is just another piece of poor publicity this thing has been receiving since its price and performance reveals.

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[–] 12 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

Lot of people are making quite a big deal out of one machine failing due to shipping damage or a bad gpu, wonder who's paying to have these push these stories out?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Nobody, would be my guess. It's just that gaming outlets love divisive topics that get them clicks. Valve is too small of a player in the hardware business for console manufacturers to really care about the Steam Machine.

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    • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    lol. You’re kidding, right?

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I love not being an early adopter

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Does it at least pulsing left and right like a Cylon?

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    [+] -6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    At the rate this is going, no sales figure could possibly make up for the growing pile of PR-disasters this PC has become for Valve.

    In many ways, it's the opposite to the reception the Steam Deck received at launch - an affordable and appropriately powerful device for the price - to the point that it could harm the prospect of Steam OS catching on outside of Valve's own devices simply due to the association with the Steam Machine.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago*

    it’s normal to have hardware failure and some % of doa

    a single report means nothing

    ‘news’ like this is useless drama

    this only hurts valve’s rep among people that have zero idea about how tech works, much less early adoption

    i’ve read nothing about the general build being cheap or defective

    but i do guess it will be the same idiots that can’t seem to understand the price was caused by ram monopolies and not valve's greed will parade this around like some kind of gotcha

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