Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

That’s okay. I’ve been an unintentional member of the patient gamers club for years now.

Yes, it's a pretty well built gaming system. I could use a replacement and it's not that expensive compared to systems I've built in the past.

This is the boat I'm in.

I put a reservation down to help a friend get one. But I'm holding out for that Frame..

No. I already have a good gaming pc. I wanted one for living room gaming but not for that price.

PC gaming is associated with high-end gaming, but Steam has the stats and they're targetting middde-of-the-road systems with the Steambow--a shockingly low standard to PC Master Race types.

I am, yes.

I’ve been building custom PCs for myself and my family/friends for the better part of 2 decades now. I know I can get a better deal on used parts to run a more powerful machine. But you know what means? I play tech support for my friends and family.

I’m buying this for myself but installing it where most people I know come walking through. Setting it up as a show piece to get people to ask about Linux and to ask about the PC. If this thing holds up as well as my Steam Deck with support, updates, and stability? I’ll go halves with all my gamer friends and relatives just to get them on a machine I won’t be called about because windows decided to release another borked update…

Obviously I have the exposable income to support this and am extremely lucky. I fully get why people are upset and think it’s a rip off tho.

Yep. I'm downsizing and will be selling my gaming rig in favour of something small and less power hungry. Yes, the cube is more expensive than what I'd like but I'll be making a huge profit from my pre-2025 era PC anyway so I can afford it. It does what I want it to and there may even be opportunity to upgrade individual components down the line anyway since it is effectively just a mini-pc.

No. The most intensive game I play is Skyrim. Someday though I might take an used SFF pre-built (like the thinkcentre), plop a low profile GPU into it, and play some slightly heavier games lile Dark Souls 3

Got a reservation but haven't fully committed yet. I guess I have…er…reservations about it?

Nah, my existing PC is good enough. But I'm very likely to get the Steam Frames once they're out. And I'll probably be playing around with SteamOS on my own machine, just because apparently it's compatible

yeah, I am a huge valve fan and love everything they put out. It's the perfect emulator machine for me, I can move everything over from my pc to this

I'm not really part of the target audience. I already have a laptop that's slightly more powerful and I could hook it up to my TV if that was a thing I wanted to do. I don't need a separate gaming PC for my living room.

I play all my games on Steam and the console like experience sounds like it's up my alley but I prefer having a desktop and streaming over WiFi. If I were to upgrade anything in my setup it'd be a graphics card, not an entire machine.

When you frame it like that it isn't really that bad. The first PC I built back in 2014 was around 1500, including peripherals so around 1100-1200 alone. But Its so much more useful than a individual console. I've been comparing it to an Xbox not an actual PC.

The problem is that the Ps6 is likely to have higher specs if it's at a similar price point. I've heard that this box has similar specs to the Ps5 so it's unlikely that Ps6 will have similar specs to this