The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts’ opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/2330473
No more crap than just playing on a monitor.
Well at a desk you don’t have to pull out the keyboard from wherever you stash it and put it on your lap every time you want to change games. It’s already there.
But of course I am comparing to console gaming where this option is a lot more crap in comparison.
Steam Big picture mode you don’t even need to bother with that. It can all be done through controller.
If you are familiar with Steam Deck that’s basically big picture mode.
And I just keep my K400 at the couch since that’s only time I use it. Sometimes I feel like browsing web a bit on the TV, or in game might want to utilize text chat. I use my PC to play video files to watch movies and shows, so pretty much multiple reasons for me beyond gaming.
Yeah I haven’t tried big picture mode lately but as I remember you still had to sometimes deal with keyboard and mouse to fix options or sometime edit files on the computer to make things work well on a given hardware. But maybe it’s improved since then.
Well yeah that’s just comes with being a PC. But, if you already got your games set up not really much need to do troubleshooting when TV gaming.
Like you can go on and on and on trying to find issues, but main point is for PC gamers who already have a gaming PC hdmi cable and controller is generally all that is needed to game on the TV. So they can save on needing another system just for the purpose of playing on a TV.
At that point if a PC is as troublesome as you keep making it out to be a Steam Machine or Steam Deck isn’t going to be any better if you truly want a simple as possible system like the console.
Yeah I’m sure for a lot of PC gamers this will be fine. It remains to be seen if the Steam Machine is really the couch experience I would accept or not. If it involves a keyboard and mouse it’s not. Been there, done that, not going back. I think it will probably be priced outside of what I’d be willing to pay for something of this spec anyway.
At the end of the day, consoles do a lot of things very well for the price and are a good value if you don’t have a very large game library. On the Sony store you can still pick most stuff up on pretty steep discounts if you wait a bit and put it on a watchlist.
Pretty much why in my first comment it was addressing PC gamers to try using a HDMI cable if they want to play on the TV. Wasn’t directed towards console gamers to get a PC.
Steam machine will require same troubleshooting, since it is in the end a PC that lets you install any games even if it isn’t compatible. And will require sometimes to go to a site like protondb to see which proton version is compatible to get the game running.
Steam machine is more an entry for those interested in getting into PCs that isnt super expensive.
Kind of funny this long conversation ended up being with a console gamer than my intended target demographic. So I kept wondering why is this pc gamer so resistant to hdmi cables.