This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).
Cheaper games at a higher upfront cost
And is actually usable as a desktop being able to run things like blender, krita, gimp, obs, etc.
99% of people won’t care though they just want to be able to play stardew valley on their big TV.
They can do that on a cheap last gen console.
No adobe unfortunately
If someone really wants adobe they can replace steamos with windows or dualboot or maybe boot windows off a external ssd they installed it on.
Also once you buy it they’ve locked you to their platform and make their Monday back on games.
Not really, you can install any other Linux like on any other AMD PC, as happened with the Steam Deck
They were referring to the PS5
!kandoh@reddthat.com implied the steam machine
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).