New Steam Hardware

[kitler53]

You can now. It wasn't the case just a week ago.  

okay, then i think comparisons that exclude OS costs are pretty valid for the steam machine then.   but yeah, in general PC builds usually leave that out and that is a pretty significant cost to building a PC.  

I have a nice gaming PC, but I feel like there are too many "distractions". 

we already have a bad stuff thread to discuss that...

[Legend]

let me guess,  that build doesn't include things like a case or power supply?  ..and of course doesn't have features like being able to wake up from the controller?

so a typical PC build that is full of BS..

They included everything in the price I believe. But it did draw more power.

Also they showed suspend and resume, it did that even better than valve's.

I think the only feature it lacked was hdmi cec. Prob was louder and def was a worse form factor.

[the-pi-guy]

Oh, no beuno.

Lol. The companion cube just got cancelled.

Dbrand didn't get permission to make it.  

[Legend]

Lol. The companion cube just got cancelled.

Dbrand didn't get permission to make it. 

Well that is pretty funny and stupid. They must have expected this.

[kitler53]

imaging using valve IP to decorate valve hardware and not getting rights.   did you think they wouldn't notice??

[Legend]

Thoughts after a few hours of playing with Steam Machine.

- 3D performance is just…meh.
- The system recommends to default to 1080p - am I going back to PS4 days?
- Some games take a looooooong time to boot, what is it doing?
- System UI is easy to use.
- Being able to boot up… pic.twitter.com/qQL93AALpZ

— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) July 2, 2026

Has anyone been super positive on it?