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Looks like some kind of review embargo has been released, ETA Prime’s apparently been sitting on a review model Steam Machine for a month.

YT url once more:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cF6eAM3jhCY

EDIT:

Oh holy shit, we also apparently have prices and a wait list sign up that… apparently closes on June 25th, 10am Pacific time.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

Variant / Price:

512 GB / $1049.00

512 GB + Controller / $1,128.00

2TB / $1349.00

2 TB + Controller / $1,428.00

EDIT 2:

This is all on the same day that we get news that… AMD figured out how to make FSR4 work on RDNA 3 / 7000 series GPUs, and, Steam is currently or just about to push a beta Proton update to Experimental, which will give this thing (as well as any PC w/ AMD 7000 series GPU) FSR4 support for basically any game that currently supports FSR3.

https://www.theverge.com/news/953664/amd-fsr-4-1-upscaling-rx-7000-series-gpus-rdna-3

https://www.eurogamer.net/steam-machine-fsr-4-upscaling-confirmed

So… that’s a lot of news.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    10·
    10 hours ago

    I am totally open to other people having different stances, but at least for myself, worth it.

    I already have an OLED Deck with a 1 TB drive… lost my old pc in lets summarily call it a series of unforunate events, been daily driving the Deck with a dock thingy and M+KB as my main PC for a few years now.

    So, I can get the 512 GB + controller bundle, and just swap the drives, reflash em with appropriate OS.

    $1128 for a ‘pc’ that can run RDR2 and Cyberpunk 77 at pretty darn good graphical settings, at 1440p, at or over 60 fps average? And fancy pantsy controller?

    Good enough, my eyes are starting to go a bit anyways lol, 4K is very likely wasted on me, and I’d love to have a Steam Deck that’s basically easier to hold and lighter, as a control option.

    That’d be a steal, imo, looking at it in PC pricing terms… which is the way I’m looking at it, because that’s the way I’ll mostly be using it.

    Also I can dress it up as a companion cube.

    Ratman loves companion cube, cannot stop testing, needs to keep testing.