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All they have to do is market the fact you don't have to pay for online.

PS5 + 3 years of PS Plus = $740

Steam Machine = $700

Add/remove more years of PS Plus if the SM turns out to be more/less expensive.

If you add the fact that games on PC are usually cheaper and have sales more often then it's a no brainer, but that won't convince the FIFA and COD players.





This system won't run FIFA, GTA Online, Battlefield, Valorant or CoD, it's a nonstarter for many.

Sure you don't need to subscribe to PS+, but that's somewhat easier to swallow since PS+ gives you games with the subscription.

I'm still interested in this for playing older games but I have a Steam Deck and it still isn't remotely as seamless as my Switch or PS5.


> This system won't run FIFA, GTA Online, Battlefield, Valorant or CoD, it's a nonstarter for many.

That's largely known now but still a bummer. I wonder if anything will ever change in this area and if Valve will be able to pressure game editors or create an anti-cheat so good and for any platform to be able to change something.


Don't see why they'd risk it. They already had to reduce their cut just to attract players like Activision and Take Two onto their platform.

Also, making anti cheat on Linux feels like the most Anti-Linux thing to do. But I don't play many multiplayer games, so I have no skin in the game.


Valve can't even do it for cs2 on windows.

Steam Machine is just a PC. You can dual boot or use a VM or use Wine/Proton .

It can be involved but it's certainly possible


Why not? You can just install windows on it.

"Just", YMMV.

It has a custom motherboard for example, which may or may not be supported by Microsoft.


Windows works in SteamDeck, so I think it seems highly likely that Valve will provide the drivers for this device as well.

*yet

Plus a game catalog that stretches back some 30 years?

More like 50 years if you consider emulators (RetroArch is available on Steam).

It doesn't even need to be available on Steam to be fair. You can run whatever games you want. You could even run a Nintendo Switch emulator if you want

True. And that is the strength of the PC platform, its openness and being able to run whatever you want.

And +X years, because you could write your own games for it and install them without begging for permission from Valve.

>All they have to do is market the fact you don't have to pay for online.

All Sony and MS have to do it market that it can't play GTA6 at launch.


All Valve has to do is bundle it with Half-Life 3.

Or Fortnite, Genshin Impact, Roblox, Marvel Rivals or any other popular live service game. Which are the games most people care about now.

Roblox is playable thanks to the efforts of the VinegarHQ team who created the Sober wrapper



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