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The sad part is that Valve really did price all the parts for pretty much as low as they could go:
Wtf? The 16g of ram costs almost as much as the gpu. I really hope my ram sticks don’t fail on me anytime soon.
The hardware prices seem competitive. But the important note is hinting at the real form factor tax: It doesn’t have the same cost / performance ratio as a normally sized PC using the same hardware.
Well it’s little, competing in the little guy bracket.
This really reflects the reverse spiral gaming hardware has seen in recent years. The benchmarks are absolutely laughable for what you could get for the same price just a year ago. Go back 2 years and the gap is even larger. Gamers are being priced out by AI slop generators.
Now also consider that the Steam Machine also has a tiny form factor, extremely quiet cooling, and CEC over HDMI that make it exceptionally suited for a living room PC and it more than makes up for that $71 gap. It really is about as good a deal as it could have been in 2026, but most people are still comparing it against 2024 prices. I think the $99 Steam Controller having a bundle price of $79 shows that Valve really are trying to do what they can here.
Honestly the fact that were able to push sub-1.1k prices with the mess we have now, and at the same time they so SteamOS can be used on your own steam machine (as in made by you) makes me think they knew of the corner they walked in for a long time.
Where’d you find this?
Looks like Gamers Nexus’ review
Bruh the lenovo desktop I got on ebay got more ram than that (32 gb ddr5)
When did you get it and for how much?
Op is full of shit my bet. I love collecting these refurbished lenovo corporate gadgets and 32gb ddr5 is extremely unlikely as I’ve never seen one. In general lenovo towers are not really usable for gaming but awesome home servers.
Plenty lenovo desktops and thinkpads with 32 gb ddr5 now. But yes, they’re not aimed for gaming
https://www.ebay.com/itm/157772460237
Kinda expensive at 1,000 usd but I guess it’s to be expected with current market conditions. I bought my 16gb refurb for like 250 just 2 years ago. Crazy difference.
I got it like 3 weeks ago I wanna say? Got it for like $900. Understandably, I’m getting downvoted because I’m comparing an office computer to a gaming device. I’m merely pointing out that RAM is incredibly expensive nowadays, to even build one on your own sourcing your own ddr5 ram is a PiTA
https://www.ebay.com/itm/157772460237