Steam Machine review finds PS5 offers better performance than Valve's gaming PC

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Valve's console challenger costs significantly more than the PS5. Even so, a Steam Machine review confirms that the base PlayStation console produces higher frame rates in some games. Overall performance benchmarks are comparable, but the price difference may be too wide for many buyers.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Steam-Machine-review-finds-PS5-offers-better-performance-than-Valve-s-gaming-PC.1326731.0.html

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What is the point of this device?

Up until 2026 you could have built a much more powerful gaming PC for less.
Now that component prices are high, what is the point of releasing this weaksauce console wanna-be?  Anyone who has wanted to game has already had many, many choices for a better Console or PC to run games, including Steam games.

It'll probably sell, but probably will not sell enough to matter in a market of many millions.

[Funny, but true:]

What is the point of this device?

The point is to spend 1,049 bucks and be stuck with 8 GB VRAM.

[Uncomical and false:]

You don't even need to build pc. A month or 2 ago they were selling a prebuilt Omen 16L's for less and it came with a significantly more powerful GPU (rtx 5060 ti).

It'll probably sell, but probably will not sell enough to matter in a market of many millions.

Which is fine. They claim they were only able to secure 2/3rds of the initial batch stockpile they wanted to due to component shortages. So they never had enough to begin with anyway.

Maybe their plan is just to serve the reservation queue of die hard valve cultists and after that dies down slowly walk away from the project and move onto new things like deck 2. Or later down the line release an upgraded pro model, otherwise makes no sense.

The point is to spend 1,049 bucks and be stuck with 8 GB VRAM.

I mean, the 8 GB 3070 Ti is still a very respectable card even today. I'm not even mad at the vram anymore but this is rx 6600 performance from 5 years ago.. :/