helimoppDec 30

i cant wait to get a steam frame

https://lemmy.world/post/40930897

i cant wait to get a steam frame - Lemmy.World

i was gonna get a quest 3 for christmas but then the steam frame got announced and i was like HELL NAH and thew my quest 3 ideas out of the window. if everything falls into place il have my steam frame just intime for my birthday :D gone will the days where i will be kicked from vrc lobbies for being a “Questie”. gone will be the days of my game crashing mid snuggle session, gone the days of having a lowkey mid game selection (apart from like metro awakening as if i was gonna get the quest 3 i would have 100% gotten that game) cant wait to get ittttt (also i cant wait to play half life alyx on it)

Show threadLemmchenDec 30
Yeah, the Steam Frame is one of those things where no matter what it’ll end up costing (realistically) I’m going to buy one.
Show threadhelimoppDec 30
i feel like steam is gonna sell them at a good price even if they are gonna make a loss on them, because gaben is tuff like that
Show threaderusuoyeraDec 31
They are definitely not selling the Gabe cube at a loss. The steam deck could be sold at a loss, because people will buy steam games for it, but the steam machine is a PC, and there would be nothing stopping, for example, corporations buying thousands as cheap workstations that will never see a single steam purchase.
Show threadcloudwolf

Unless the price is ridiculously low, corporations are not buying thousands of anything without a support contract. Next day repairs/exchnages and priority support are a must when dealing with hardware at scale, and Valve is not going to offer that.

Dell/Lenovo/HP are already more expensive than consumer-grade hardware from Best Buy unless you are a very large customer. Companies pay for reliability, warranty and support.

Dec 31 at 4:51amWeb
Show threaddrosophilaJan 1

It happened to the Playstation, though not for use as workstations usually.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

Although Valve apparently already takes anti-scalping measures with the Steam Deck, so maybe it could work out in that way (as in, each steam account gets a limited number of purchases, TOS against trying to bypass that limit, etc).

OtherOS - Wikipedia

Show threadGrimpenJan 1

Those PlayStation supercomputers were wild. I don’t think it’s analogous to the various bits of Steam hardware coming out though, since Valve sells directly through Steam. You can’t order anything by the pallet.

The other thing to consider is that the PS3 was used for clustered computing primarily because of the Cell processor. I have no recollection of why the cell processor performed better on certain types of problems. PS3 wasn’t being used for Excel spreadsheets, it was used for niche academic use and that one Air Force supercomputer. The Steam hardware though uses pretty standard hardware, AMD processor and Radeon graphics card.

Considering the added friction of buying through Steam, i doubt it will have same draw.