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Steam Machine Revealed! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.12.25
12 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What new hardware has Steam announced?
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What's up and welcome to a mega huge star studded kind of funny games daily for Wednesday, November 12th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes, and it was supposed to be just me and blessing at a junior. What's up, Tim? It was too much big news. We had to get Greg Miller himself joining us at the desk for one of the very rare.
You're talking about PC gaming. Greg Miller's got to be there. All right. Let me tell you about Steam. I was looking at the numbers. I'm trouncing all of you on how much I've played in the past two weeks of Steam. That can't be true.
that's the world you live in now you are through the looking glass and i'm excited to hear about this machine oh man everyone this is kind of funny games daily each every weekday we run you through all the video game news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and podcast services around the globe if you love what we do please support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube and now spotify and apple podcast to get all of our shows ad free
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We are an 11-person business all about live talk shows. Today, after Games Daily, you're going to get the Kind of Funny podcast. After that is an NVIDIA-sponsored Doom stream. where the boys are going to show off all the DLSS for tech and why it's the perfect time to upgrade with some doom, the dark ages. After that, the games cast is the final dispatch review.
Greg, you want to talk about that a little bit?
Yeah, myself, Barrett and blessing. We're not supposed to be on that much content today. We can play dispatch before the games cast. We're doing the afternoon. We still think we can do it. So we're going to do this mega packed games daily, then run off, play the last two episodes of dispatch.
Then after the stream come to you with a games cast where we will do a review spoiler free, then break and do a spoiler cast second half that you can wait on. You don't have to watch right now.
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Chapter 2: What are the key features of the new Steam Controller?
When we talk about Xbox, we talk about how much they're leaning into the PC side. This is the most I've seen Steam lean into the console side of things of, hey, optimization, make it easy, pick up and play, plug it in. We got all this stuff ready for you.
And on top of that, we know that because you take the Steam Deck, you dock it to your TV. It's a console. It's a Switch, right? Now, currently. So it's like you apply that to just a more powerful box.
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.
This speaks directly to me, especially in that part you talk about, right? Hey, did you not play PC games that heavily until the Steam Deck? Guess what? I'm that person. Greg's that person. There are a lot of those people, right? And the things that they're solving here are issues that I have. They talk about that percentage of players that dock their Steam Deck to their TV. I used to do that.
Year one, I've had my Steam Deck. After a while, I was like... I don't like the resolution on my TV. And even with controllers, it's like, all right, I'm connecting my PlayStation controller. I'm going to go into the settings on a Bluetooth menu to do all this stuff. I just I didn't like doing that after a while. Right.
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Chapter 3: How does the Steam Machine compare to other gaming PCs?
And I think just then create stronger products.
What? So we've been jumping around. I know we blessed touchdown, but Tim, what's your read on the VR headset?
Yeah.
Like I said earlier, I'm surprised, but not at the same time. I do think that if they're going to continue to support VR, which they clearly are, now is the time to do it. Have all the hardware next to each other. I don't think it takes away. Not making it the focus, just making it a
Hey, we're doing something else here.
And focusing, again, on it's not about VR. It's about 2D games in VR. The majority of what they showed in that trailer, yes, they do have Half-Life Alyx, right? That's them that have what is probably known as the biggest definitive.
definitive best VR game that there is out there and um for them to be able to flaunt that I think is is huge but also show hey this headset has other uses and that those uses are maybe you don't have the biggest TV in your house maybe you just are looking for a different way to play these games you could do that I don't think that this is for everyone I don't think that this is going to be the device that like turns people into VR gamers but I don't think that's their goal I mean
It really sounds like it comes from a place of passion. Like they even mentioned in the trailer of like, this is just like how some of us are really passionate about playing video games. And the fact that the last Half-Life game to come out was made specifically for VR. It just seems like the culture within Steam and within Valve is just like, hey, VR is cool and we just want to support it.
And if it does, you know, if it bombs, who cares kind of thing. That's my read on it.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the new Steam hardware for Xbox?
Because I do think that gets it down. Oh, yeah. That is a good call, yeah. Because they said that the VR does. Yeah. And they would have said that for the console, which does make sense. That helps get the price there.
Because I expect that controller to be expensive. And so, like, if you can put out the Steam machine for $700 and then the controller costs another $100.
Interesting. Yeah. I buy that. It is crazy what Paris is saying is very true about the Steam Deck. $400 for the entry Steam Deck. That's incredibly cheap for what that product is and how powerful it is. And then $550 for the OLED version that is even better and still an incredible value compared to similar things on the market.
And then even when you start thinking about how expensive the Switch 2 is at this point, where it's not like Nintendo is the cheap one anymore, right? It's like they're pretty much right there with the big boys. So, yeah, like... If they can get this thing to even $800, if you can price this with the PS5 Pro, I think that that is huge.
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, 100%. Paris, do you have any other thoughts?
No, other than just to say, like you were saying before with Half-Life 3, that's got to be coming early 2026 right along with these devices. It just makes sense because it's not an exclusive, but it kind of is because it's exclusive to Steam, right? And that's just going to push more people to want to invest in Steam.
And I will just say, as I close this out, the Microsoft angle of this, the Xbox angle, this just goes back to what we're currently seeing with the Xbox ally and how they're using Windows. They got a lot of work to do if they want to compete on with what Valve has already done with Steam OS and with Steam Big Picture mode. It just works. It's simple.
You never have to leave it to install games, updates, anything. Windows is just not there yet. So whatever they're cooking with this next gen offering, I mean, this this clearly sets the standard on what they need to achieve with it. So it'll be interesting to see. But from from a Valve standpoint, just being a fan of everything that they've done, this just makes sense. I'm excited for it.
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Chapter 5: What are the key features of the new Steam Machine?
But I am interested in it. Like if somebody here bought the VR, I might ask to borrow it.
Yeah. I'm interested personally in the Steam machine where I think out of all the people at the desk talking about this, I'm the one that is least likely to get it. Mainly because I don't have a need for it. Because I have my PCs connected to my TV. So it's like, I don't know that I'm going to need it.
Having said that, I do... And one thing we didn't talk about, I love that there's the little face plates you can get.
Yeah, the face plates look cool.
And the walnut one they show, and I'm like, that shit's kind of hot.
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Chapter 6: Why is the Steam Machine appealing to gamers?
What's crazy, and I hate to keep bringing Xbox into this, but the fact that, like, it... The Steam Machine to me just looks like you cut an Xbox Series X in half. But they found a way to make it kind of sexy with the face plates.
The sexy LED strip? Yeah, it's like, all right, I really liked that. But yeah, I am interested of if I'm going to find a need for this device. Maybe not my main TV. Maybe it goes to my living room TV or something. I'm not sure. But I'm interested in it.
Chapter 7: How does the Steam Machine compare to existing consoles?
I'm excited it exists. I do think that this is going to be a major hit. My big question is, do they get it? At Best Buy. Or do they do the Steam thing and keep it to themselves? Which I don't think so. I think this is going to be a huge coming out moment.
I mean, how much is that a factor?
I think undeniable. Is Best Buy still like that?
Chapter 8: What are the implications of pricing for the Steam Machine's success?
I'm just using Best Buy as a thing. But even the website, though. Even BestBuy.com. You know what I mean? Even Amazon. Can you buy a Steam Deck on Amazon right now?
That's a really good point.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Let's see.
Yeah, I guess being on those storefronts that everybody's on and seeing it as a thing that you could do. is a big factor.
Um, it looks like you can, but maybe not officially. Cause it's like $800 right now for some reason. They don't sell seam decks other than the steam store. So it's Kevin. So yeah, it's like, like think about that, right? Like that type of push. That is the difference maker, man. Um, Naveed K says, time to sell my Series X for a Steam machine. Zeke Speaks says, console wars are fucking over.
This is hot, hot, hot.
Yeah, dude, that's the crazy thing because you mentioned it, right, of what is the usage for you personally. And I think I'm in a similar spot of when I'm playing games, when I'm playing PC games at home, I have a PC built. You know, like I have a Steam deck. And I play all my games at my desk. So do I really need the Steam machine? But there is something powerful. And we talked about this.
for years and years and years. There's something powerful about the idea of ecosystem where there's PlayStation hardware that I have where it's like, I rarely use this, but I like it because it works in conjunction with my PS5, right? The only thing, the only PS5 hardware that I have where I'm like, man, why do I have this? This is my PSVR 2. And I used it. I think this last week, Luminous Arise.
But there is something about how much investment I have into Steam Deck and the Steam Store and all this stuff where just naturally, I look at the Steam machine and I'm like, I'll find a use for this.
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