• Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    21 hours ago

    Any educated guesses, or layman guesses, about the price?

    My layman guess is 600-800, the low price being same price as the top end steam deck on release

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        18 hours ago

        I don’t see that being the case, it’s relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.

        Seems to me like they’re targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.

        • kurcatovium@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for lower end system, something I could by for my kids. But given the price of other consoles, I’m a bit nervous about the final price, hence I mentally prepare myself for 1k USD so I can be (hopefully) pleasantly surprised.

        • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
          41·
          11 hours ago

          Yeah, I was very surprised to see the only upgrade is a generous storage from 512 GiB to 2 TiB… I would rather build my own PC, spend a little extra, cover other needs I have (zfs pool for videos), and get a good GPU that I can always replace for a newer one in a few years… But of course, that’s just me. That new GPU could easily cost as much as the Steam Machine itself, hehe. Of course, it would be way more powerful…

    • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
      7·
      19 hours ago

      From what I understand the Steam Machine performance is somewhere between Series S and Series X. I don’t think it will cost more than a Series X.

      Maybe 600.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      13·
      21 hours ago

      The Machine will apparently be about the price of “an entry level PC”.

      The Frame will “not cost more than the Index”.

      • croizat@lemmy.mlEnglish
        32·
        19 hours ago

        Not more than the index is a low bar considering it’s about the most expensive of the mainstream headsets

        • Euphoma@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          18 hours ago

          Literally every VR headset released this year is over 1k usd. Only meta (and now valve) care about budget headsets

          • croizat@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            10 hours ago

            The only ones that released this year are enthusiast premium brands, unless I’m missing any. Last year had the quest and the HTC which I’ll admit I was wrong about, I thought it was lower than exactly 1k