"Pretty cool for the 20 minutes that it worked".

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.

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    29·
    8 hours ago

    If 1/1000 systems are DOA and they imported 40k in the US, that means 40 systems should be DOA.

    0.1% of systems having issues would be a pretty common occurrence in consumer electronics. That’s why you have a warranty.

      • Action Bastard@lemmy.world@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        9 hours ago

        Unless you’re worried that Steam Machine actually going to be a viable competitor to Xbox and Sony now that they’ve both also raised prices and dropped physical distribution. They lost two more big draws to their ecosystems and neither Sony or Microsoft have nearly as good a reputation for managing online stores.

        Helps to push the angle that steam machines are “unreliable”. We’ll see if more of them turn up or not though. Difference between random hardware failure that happens everywhere and systemic production issue ala the 360 Ring of Death.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 hours ago

          On that note, it’s possible this is just one of the competitors deliberately breaking one. Not that a failed system isn’t plausible, but it’s just as plausible that one of valve’s competitors is trying to create FUD.

          Time will tell I guess, but it reminds me of all the complaints about the radeon 5700 XT when all I saw was instability caused by my mobo thinking it could just enable PCIe (x+1) when it was only engineered for PCIe x (forget if it was 3 and 4 or 4 and 5), and it worked great after I updated the bios so it stopped doing that. It was hard to tell what complaints were legitimate and I was just lucky to avoid vs what was being amplified because AMD was getting back in the competition and nvidia didn’t like that.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 hours ago

      Kind of early to call it a nothing burger when the thing isn’t out yet. One user isn’t a lot if it was currently being sold but I imagine the number of steam machines that have gone out isn’t very high yet. That being said, the red ring of death affected something like 30% of units, I doubt the number of steam machine affected is anywhere close to that.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      The article is about a single person having this issue, I’m not sure you can really call the hardware “dodgy” just because a single one (so far) failed.