Greg Miller

Let me bring in three paragraphs from this IGN article.

This is great stuff over here.

Who is this for?

According to Valve, about 20% of its Steam Deck users used its official dock to connect their handheld to their TV.

That might not seem like a lot, but given that Valve has shipped millions of Steam Decks, a first-generation product, mind you, that 20% is not an insignificant amount of people.

However, there are limitations to running a Steam Deck on a TV.

Chief among them is performance.

While the Steam Deck is plenty powerful for running PC games on its 800p display, it can't really handle higher resolutions very well, especially when you connect it to a 4K TV.

The Steam Machine, then, is the answer.

This is a living room gaming PC that should be able to play most games at 4K, assuming you're okay with upscaling from 1080p.

Of course, most gaming PCs should be able to do that these days.

And while the Steam machine will have to contend with similarly specced gaming PCs that can be upgraded, I don't think this is for the traditional DIY hardware enthusiast.

Rather, this feels more like a PC for console gamers, people who didn't play games on PC until the Steam Deck hit the market in 2022.

It runs the same operating system and has the same library, only it will be able to play games at much higher settings.

After all, Valve claims the Steam machine is up to six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, so it should be able to avoid situations like Baldur's Gate 3, where the second you load into Act 3 on the handheld, your frame rate slows to a crawl.

Yeah, yeah.

Something interesting, too, to call out.

There's so much information coming out, which is amazing.

What a day.

This is why we do this job, right?