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Game News Discussion / Re: New Steam Hardware

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 09:17 PM

Overall thoughts.

Steam Frame: A little disappointing as mentioned above. I might get it anyways, if the price is good. But I don't think it will be. It'll probably be like $800. If it manages to be less than $600, I will probably get it. 

Steam Machine: had some similar thoughts to Kitler.

I've said before that I don't love PC gaming. Kind of goofy thing is that I just feel like all of the OS stuff feels distracting to me. Consoles solve that for me, by being so gaming focused. Steam OS would probably resolve that for me. I'm not sure if getting into PC gaming is meaningful enough for me. Like every new game I want to play is coming to PlayStation - including Xbox/Zenimax games. It would be more if I wanted to go into older games. I'd probably play Portal and Half Life on it. I'm not really sure if that's enough that I would buy this. 

But it was intriguing enough for me to think about it for several minutes. 


Steam Controller: I feel like it's probably great despite my view that I think it looks bad, but I don't feel compelled to get it or anything. 

#2

Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...

Last post by Legend - Today at 08:48 PM

I need to go back and finish alyx.

#3

Game News Discussion / Re: New Steam Hardware

Last post by Legend - Today at 08:47 PM

so far all i know is what i saw in this video.  my hot takes:

MS's next xbox is DoA.  it's sandwhiched between just buying a regular old PC or buying a steam machine.  a PC is a PC.  and if I want a feature-less PC that better integrates to a TV i trust steam and their machines will do it better.  way less bloat.

Sony's ps6 very well could be DoA too.  maybe DoA is too much but i've been saying for years now that steam is clearly going to iterate on their original steam machine and come out with a better more console like product.  well here it is.  and if sony keeps putting all of their exclusives on steam there's going to be a sizable audience that will migrate to steam instead of upgrading into a ps6.  sony needs to get their own PC storefront asap and stop putting their biggest games on what is now their biggest competitor's storefront.

It depends on price vs specs, but I'd certainly be more interested in a steam machine than xbox pc.

But probably neither. It's a pain to connect my laptop to my tv but it can do everything these guys can.

#4

Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 08:20 PM

Sounds like #5 is probably wrong too.  

Valve confirmed that it's not currently working on a new first-party VR game. "A member of the Steam Frame team denied that it has any VR content in development", via @UploadVR

Here you go, another confirmation that HLX / HL3 is not a VR game. But I wonder what happened with… pic.twitter.com/EDd1HATzNq

— ‎Gabe Follower (@gabefollower) November 12, 2025

#5

Game News Discussion / Re: New Steam Hardware

Last post by kitler53 - Today at 08:12 PM

so far all i know is what i saw in this video.   my hot takes:

MS's next xbox is DoA.   it's sandwhiched between just buying a regular old PC or buying a steam machine.   a PC is a PC.   and if I want a feature-less PC that better integrates to a TV i trust steam and their machines will do it better.   way less bloat.

Sony's ps6 very well could be DoA too.  maybe DoA is too much but i've been saying for years now that steam is clearly going to iterate on their original steam machine and come out with a better more console like product.   well here it is.   and if sony keeps putting all of their exclusives on steam there's going to be a sizable audience that will migrate to steam instead of upgrading into a ps6.   sony needs to get their own PC storefront asap and stop putting their biggest games on what is now their biggest competitor's storefront.

#6

Game News Discussion / Re: New Steam Hardware

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 07:37 PM

I almost feel like there was more VR progress between 2016 and 2019, than there was between 2019 and 2025.

Resolution wise, standalone, inside out market less tracking. Rift to Quest 1 feels like a crazy jump.

Whereas this feels like a marginal upgrade compared to Quest 2, which came out in 2020. And even more marginally better than the Quest 3 that came out in 2023.

It feels like we went from 10x better at half the price to 20% better at twice the price. Which to be fair, a lot of that price is due to Meta subsidizing the hardware. Quest 2 was just a crazy good deal when it was out.

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Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 07:12 PM

Wrong on #3

Hmmm

I was thinking that too.  

#5 seems possible. Someone found a reference to an unannounced Valve game.

#8

Game News Discussion / Re: Ratchet and Clank: Ranger ...

Last post by Legend - Today at 06:59 PM

Looks even worse than the all for one spinoff.

#9

Gaming Community / Re: The VR thread. U R Not re...

Last post by Legend - Today at 06:58 PM

Valve’s new VR headset “Frame” (previously codenamed Decard) is very likely to be announced this week. Here are a few key points:

1. Performance
Due to chipset constraints, Frame’s performance will likely be only slightly above Quest 3 — don’t expect a major leap. Display…

— Wu Xu (@xuwu) November 11, 2025

Wrong on #3

Hmmm

#10

Game News Discussion / Re: New Steam Hardware

Last post by Legend - Today at 06:57 PM

Steam machines are back. Crazy.

New steam controller looks meh.

Doubt I buy any of this stuff. Frame is kinda tempting but not enough to get me to jump in.