Interesting. Something that specializes in motion gaming is a nice idea. If you get one report back how it is.

To be fair I do explain my couch use case, the fact that I don’t have a Steam library, and directly mention the PS5 at the top level comment of this chain, so you shouldn’t be too surprised that I’m a console gamer.

It very well begs the question though, if it’s not for console gamers due to mentioned issues and likely price, is it really for PC gamers who likely already have a PC and could easily enough stream to their tv or just get a long cable and a few other peripherals as you mention? And would PC users really be happy with such a nerfed machine graphically? My impression is that most PC gamers are shooting for even higher specs than consoles.

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.

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 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.

Not an experience I would want personally. But that’s one of the differences between me and a PC gamer, PC gamers are happy to put up with a lot more crap with their gaming than I am.

I’ve tried these couch keyboard mouse setups and they always suck.

You still need a controller that will go that far and an OS/frontend that works on the TV.

That alone wouldn’t solve most of the problems of playing on the couch.

Could be good for some home automation workflows- plex server, transcribing security cam video, doing object detection on said video.

No. It’s going to be sub PS5 in terms of performance and should be priced accordingly. You can make the argument that games are a bit cheaper on Steam so they can maybe charge a premium for that.

I am ostensibly the target market for this as I refuse to play games at my desk, only the couch. But I would love to get into the Steam ecosystem and play on my couch and PCVR titles. But I would only consider one if it could do the things my PS5 does at a similar price for both the system and VR headset.

That’ll be hilarious when everyone buys the flagship Xbox branded handheld only to install a Steam variant on it.

That’s true. I agree that’s the only area its revolutionized.

We have found it useful for summarizing interactions, doing evaluations on interactions that would have no evaluation otherwise, and highlighting and summarizing relevant passages in knowledge articles for people on interactions with customers and for customers themselves via the web. It does have value, just a small fraction of that which would be needed to justify the investment being made and the valuations it’s getting.

I work for a contact center software company. There are definitely some valid use cases for agentic ai and LLM’s but most of the stuff being attributed to the latest wave of AI is stuff that’s already been possible for a decade at least. The new tech open up a few good use cases but they are definitely incremental rather than revolutionary.

I think this can mostly be chalked up to Trump’s tariffs.

Those were my favorite games back then.

I played it on my Amiga. Good times.

I’m impressed he has an era correct TV for each one.

Not if I have anything to say about it. I’m putting a cap at $59.99 for must have AAA titles with tons of replay value. I will wait until they meet me there. Most games don’t meet that standard for me, so most I will be waiting much longer.

Another World

Half Life

Bioshock

Elder Scrolls Oblivion

Dragons Age Origins

Baldurs Gate 3

It looks like destructive environments are back and the nod to the BF4 theme at 2:00 is interesting. Let’s hope that DICE can pull their head out of their ass for this one.