Matt James

I just think people are like, you know, people are used to prices being absolutely out of control right now.

Why not just say a hundo?

Oh, I can see deluxe versions for absurd, irresponsible amounts.

That's too much money, Ben.

The price is too damn high.

And you know what?

The sad thing is, from a hardware perspective, it's not completely unreasonable.

If you were to build out a comparable PC based on the specs, I think you could come in a couple hundred dollars, maybe even $300.

less than this thing if you really tried.

Now, at that point, you're building a much larger PC with a larger form factor.

Yeah, it's not going to be GameCube-sized.

Right, Valve has done a nice job of managing the thermals and the noise level of this thing to be nice.

But at the same time, if you are paying that little extra to get your Steam machine, the thing you're sacrificing...

is future upgrades because the GPU and CPU in this thing are locked in.

Those are not going to be able to be upgraded.

And the biggest problem with this Steam machine is that, yeah, it's expensive, but also it's kind of just...

A machine for now and not a machine for the future.

It is comparable to a PS5 in performance at a much higher price.

And yeah, it's a small use case.

There aren't many people who I think I can recommend this to unless you have a very tiny space for a computer.