New Steam Hardware

[the-pi-guy]

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

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[Legend]

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.

[the-pi-guy]

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.

[kitler53]

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.