Sorry, sorry, I just checked and I have 1400 games on every platform I own, only 850 on Steam. Those 80 additional games probably cost about one Deck so I think we’re even. 
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Uh-oh, I’m not tallying other platforms because then I’m in trouble.
In my defence I gifted my first OLED Steam Deck to my brother which 100% absolves me of all guilt for buying the white one.
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Wait, when did you get a third one?
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I definitely didn’t do that around the time the white one launched. I definitely didn’t have a conversation with @tylerisrandom where he and I both agreed that it would be stupid to give the brand new OLED that I just bought less than a year previously to my brother so that I could buy a white one, and I definitely didn’t do exactly that last Christmas. Nope, not me.
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Still rockin’ my original non-OLED Steam Deck over here 
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You have more sense than I.
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I cant justify the upgraded screen, but… i wanna
I literally carry my deck around like its my phone. Or some kinda support animal. If im in a room, its in the room
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So I just learnt about Shrek Deck 
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That’s both stupid and hilarious
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Linux really lets you do anything!
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I’m right there with you! I think the screen looks pretty dang good.
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That’s ok. Who wants to play games from a company owned by Trump’s son-in-law anyway? I’m sure they are already working hard on making all their games anti-woke and as fascist as possible right now.
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EA has been a dumpster fire for years. I remember what they did to Command and Conquer (thank you Valve for porting the franchise to Steam).
EA has devolved to a malignant slime mold.
Here we go folks! The Steam Machine is back and this time it’s not a partner platform, it’s a valve device like the Steam Deck.
Gift link:
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Valve has published comprehensive pages on their new devices which include the Steam Machine, new VR called Steam Frame and a new Steam Controller.
I’m 100% buying controllers. The Steam Machine is a nice intro Gaming PC, but the specs are a bit too low for the target I hit with my existing console sized PC, so as much as I think this is neat it’s not yet for me.
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I don’t really see this as a gateway into PC gaming. I know it’s on the lower end compared to people building their own machines, but if it can play most to all newer games at even 1080p 30 FPS, that’s going to be enough for the audience that wants something like this. I put myself in the category that really wants this. You know I’d been debating building a carbon copy of your PC for a long time, but I just never pulled the trigger on it. I’ve had a BeeLink SER8 for a while, and while it’s been pretty good, it doesn’t quite hit 1080p 30FPS for more intensive games.
I’m just so curious to see what cost is going to be. My mental range for this thing is $600 - $1200. If it’s closer to that $600, it’s going to be a no brainer for a ton of people.
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I am looking it in two ways:
- Gateway as in this is sufficient to meet the needs of people who just want a simple machine that easily lets them play PC games from stores like Steam, GoG, Itch. It’s a nice console PC hybrid that brings people over to PC gaming and PC gaming libraries without needing to build their own PC. Thus it acts as a gateway to that world. Even if their follow up is another Steam Machine, they are in the PC gaming ecosystem.
- Speaking specifically from personal experience, I built a PC directly because of the Steam Deck. The Steam Deck was my gateway to both the ecosystem and additional PC hardware. I think the Steam Machine might work that way for a handful of people who might get brave enough to build their own machine after they get comfortable with Linux. It’s also a gateway to Linux, which is great.
I think what is important is that it should be just turn-key enough to attract console players, and just flexible enough to help some console players find comfort in a platform that can also be quite flexible and tinker friendly. It can straddle the line between a console for people who just want to power it up and play, and a PC for people who feel ready to move away from Windows.
My thought is more than the base Steam Deck, less than the 1TB OLED Steam Deck. It’s more powerful than the Steam Deck so that will bump the price up a bit above the LCD Steam Deck, but the overall components will probably cost a bit less at scale than the SoC and OLED screen of the 1GB Steam Deck. Maybe the 2TB Steam Machine will be around the price of the 1TB OLED.
That’s my guess, which I admit leads a lot of room for me to be in the ballpark, lol.
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One additional thought is that I spent almost a year playing my Steam Deck handheld and connected to my TV, and it was great, so if the Steam Machine is even a fraction more powerful (which it’s vastly more than) it’s going to be a pretty great console PC. It’s such a perfect form factor too because it’s basically half an ITX case. I have no reason to get one, but I almost wish I did, lol.
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For the spec and tech inclined, DF’s discussion of the Steam Machine is worth watching:
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