Valve Introduces Steam Machine, Steam Frame, Steam Controller - Gabe Cube

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I definitely want a Steam Machine, that's going to fucking rule. I already stopped using Windows OS because of the Steam Deck, now I can further do it with a proper PC.

We finally got a GabeCube, boys!
 
Some competition coming to the industry is always good.

People are shitting on the specs but it's running SteamOS so you should be able to squeeze out more power vs running the same kit on windows.

It's a steam PC so if you're not a fan of the controller, use the xbox or dualshock one.

This is dropping at the same time as GTA6, which makes me think the delay was to get GTA6 working on steam. I hope it's timed exclusive to Steam.
 
This would be an excellent opportunity to take up the void that xbox and playstation are currently hard at work producing. But again I see some of the faults of "just another crippled pc for your living room" design and although better, the new gamepad gives me little hope in terms of usability.
 
If this thing ends up being $399, then holy shit it could change the console landscape. This is what I’ve been hoping for!

But I’m confused about one thing: it says HDMI 2.0 which only goes up to 4K60, but they’re advertising 4K120. What gives?
augment said:
This would be an excellent opportunity to take up the void that xbox and playstation are currently hard at work producing. But again I see some of the faults of "just another crippled pc for your living room" design and although better, the new gamepad gives me little hope in terms of usability.
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“Crippled”? It can do anything a PC can, just like a Steam Deck. And you don’t have to use that specific controller.
 
Advertising is currently year slop (LGBT, niggers, "y'all"). I hope their display outputs support DSC or it will limit 4k displays to 60hz. Other than that looks alright.

Nice to see a micro sd card slot and I'm a bit surprised they have dedicated vram. I would've expected an APU like the steam deck but with some more graphics horsepower and a higher powerlimit. Also 16gb seems out of proportion for 8gb for vram but then again I'm sure they're custom compiling the OS with only the modules they need and -O3 or whatever.

I'm not in the market for a console right now so I guess I will simply continue to spend 20$/year on steam sales and sponge off of valve's contributions to linux and arch. Hope they release steamOS for the general public at some point so we can get some of the 95IQ normgroids off of windows. Any word on kernel level anti-cheat?

W@rui said:
GabeCube
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10/10
 
I was going to make a post about how you can already buy mini PCs with a similar form factor that do a decent enough jobs of running games, but this product isn't aimed at me. This is aimed at people who want to be able to pick something off the shelf and have it just work, not people who want to dick around with installing Batocera.
 
Two Dollars said:
But I’m confused about one thing: it says HDMI 2.0 which only goes up to 4K60, but they’re advertising 4K120. What gives?
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I see they break that out in the output section and specifically say 4k120 for HDMI. HDMI 2.0 doesn't support DSC so they must be talking about a 4:2:0 signal.

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Never Scored said:
you can already buy mini PCs with a similar form factor
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Does anyone sell minipcs with dedicated gpus?
 
Peanut Butter in Peril said:
At first I thought this might be a stroll down memory lane or something but this is all new stuff.
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Steam must have realized that farming the first verson of the Steam Machine out to third parties was a horrible mistake.

Now with the success of the Steam Deck and SteamOS they can create a custom machine to put in the living room. I guess the question is what is going to be the price?

Steam has to have the hardware specs and games most of their user base plays so I wonder if they target a cheaper option that does pretty decent graphics that can play all the indie/low graphic games while still getting some decent performance from the AAA knowing they can create a target hardware profile for the GabeCube.
 
herefortheactualthreads said:
lets hope they wont fumble it like the people did with OUYA
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OUYA was a quad-core Cortex-A7 brick that played early Android games.

The landscape has changed a lot (for the better) since the first attempt at Steam Machines. But it will mostly live or die on pricing. I can see them not hitting $400 because of weird stuff like the DDR5 RAM quadrupling in price recently.

I don't know if it's technically a mobile or desktop variant (could be RX 7600M with higher TDP), but this RX 7400/7600ish GPU is what a lot of people would like for budget builds (RX 7600 8 GB is $250 on Newegg which is not great). The only downside is 8 GB VRAM, which can be coped with for the moment.

Official FSR4 support will give it legs, making it possible to hit 1080p60 and technically the 4K60 they're advertising if you like extreme upscaling. The "leaked" INT8 version of FSR4 has been tested on the Steam Deck:

AMD FSR 4 Now Works on Steam Deck, Delivering Significant Image Quality Improvements
AMD FSR 4 Brings Significant Improvements in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Stellar Blade on Steam Deck
 
SCV said:
Advertising is currently year slop (LGBT, niggers, "y'all").
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It's really bad. Even the drawings of the hardware, I don't think this counts as globohomo but it grosses me out all the same.

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Steam machine sounds sick. All my library plus scp -r pirated_game to my console-like pc sounds like a win.

Curious to see what the internals look like and how open they are to tinkerers. Upgrading my steam decks storage was easy as pie, so I imagine the same with the console.

If I could add external storage, may make sense to load up plex/jellyfin and just use that as my media center as well.

Hopefully priced similarly to steam deck where they eat hardware losses because it introduces more users to the steam ecosystem.

Steam controller is awesome as well considering how much I utilize custom controller configs for the deck so I can play Dawn of War 2 or Simcity 4. From the steam machine specs it looks like it comes with a controller?

Very cool. Now please Gabe, please tell me when the steam deck 2 is coming out.
 
SCV said:
Does anyone sell minipcs with dedicated gpus?
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They do. Example: A Minisforum mini PC with an 8-core Rembrandt APU and a mobile RX 6600M (100W) dGPU inside, probably similar (but a little less) in GPU performance to this Steam Machine.


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Steam Machine could undercut a lot of these at $400-500, while having much better support.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
They do. Example: A Minisforum mini PC with an 8-core Rembrandt APU and a mobile RX 6600M (100W) dGPU inside, probably similar (but a little less) in GPU performance to this Steam Machine.
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Huh, TIL. I guess I always thought if you wanted something small that you can't upgrade you'd just get a laptop for the added portability. Guess I'm just just old.

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Margo Martindale said:
Theres an article from the verge I found that shows the insides (on mobile and blocked by paywall so cant upload them right now)

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>the verge
lol, lmao. Call me when GN or ifixit does a teardown.
 
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