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Valve Says the Steam Machine Saw a Similar Price Increase as the Steam Deck, Which Means It Was Originally Supposed to Cost About $750
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-steam-machine-was-originally-meant-to-cost-about-750
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nialv7 lemmy.world nialv7@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-27
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

IGN can't do math.

1049 is 40% more than 749, not 33%....

(screenshot in case they change it

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_haha_oh_wow_ piefed.social _haha_oh_wow_@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-30
#3 · Quote Reply

Look what the oligarchs took from us.
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Dudewitbow lemmy.zip Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-11-07
#4 · Quote Reply
nialv7 wrote:
IGN can't do math. 1049 is 40% more than 749, not 33%.... (screenshot in case they change it )

keep in mind, the steam machine uses 16gb sysram and 8gb vram vs the steamdecks 16gb shared ram.

the machine is forced to buy 8gb more ram to offset that difference
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Sabin10 lemmy.world Sabin10@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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Dudewitbow wrote:
keep in mind, the steam machine uses 16gb sysram and 8gb vram vs the steamdecks 16gb shared ram. the machine is forced to buy 8gb more ram to offset that difference

The sane answer we need. So many comments are trying to explain it using the unit cost without accounting for differences in the systems configurations.
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