
Doubt it.
The steam deck provides at least a compelling reason and it didn’t sell all that great. This is just pissing money away on shitty hardware.
Console buyers are not going to be pulled away from their eco systems and PC builders are going to know better. At best they’re going to get a sliver of the pre built market and they will quickly adjust while the box sku will remain largely untouched.
I’m looking for small cheap boxes to put in other rooms for the family and to replace consoles and it’s a non starter for me. Who is actually going to purchase this thing?
You could buy a refurbished laptop, or spend a few extra bucks and get twice the GPU 🤷♂️ and a machine with proper RAM and vRAM.

I could also just play 2d isometric all day at 4k60 or cs1.6 at 240 🤷♂️
It’s dishonest advertising. A 5 year old 3080 couldn’t reliably do 4k60 on modern at the time graphic intensive games. This slower GPU with 8gb of vram certainly ain’t doing it on anything today modern and graphically intensive.

I’m not going to sugarcoat hard to swallow pills here 🤣
You want to make a bet for charity?
I’ll wait until the next time I hear gamers screeching about dlc online. But this time I’ll use pretty language and be super wholesome.
I guarantee I get 90% the same response from this or any other gaming sub.
Care to work out the specifics of that bet? I have long given up giving two fucks about sensible Internet speech. Monkeys can’t hold sensible conversations unless they are face to face with social consequences. Call me part of the problem 🤷♂️.

It’s mostly meta and effort. Your reflexes don’t decline THAT until your 60s. Sure you might not be able to be a top 1% but beyond that it’s mostly just practice and giving fucks lol.
I’m not reading patch notes, I’m playing builds I want and ignoring meta, and I’d rather pop 2 off in the noggin than seek out and practice with better players.
OTOH I’m turning the fastest laps of my life with my auto racing and am chasing a win!
Gamers will and do bitch about anything and everything. I couldn’t care less if they use AI if the product is good.