How do you guys feel about the Steammachine?

[echogecko]

Would you guys buy it, or stick to your own consoles or pc? me personally i would just stick to my pc cuz im alright with my ps3 and pc that ill hopefully get later this year or next. I guess one thing would be that the steam machine wouldnt need discs for obvious reasons. but im a little worried if the steam machine is successful then playstation, xbox and nintendo would stop having discs and physical copies. i dont want that!

Also, how do you feel about the extra stuff like the controllers and vr headset? i think its alright i guess.. whenever i play games that need a controller i just use a ps4 controller. im not very familiar with vr games, i kinda feel like they are pretty cool but are more of a novelty atm. I wouldnt buy an entire headset just to play half life alyx or job simulator. unless i become one of those stinky vrchat players.

honestly, it DOES look cool though! and obviously, the whole aspect that Half Life 3 could finally come out would be amazing. lets all inject ourselves with hope. I hope to god they added adrian shepherd to the game, i wont forget him!!! opposing forces was super cool. i love half life 1 man euggehh...

[Zero Kirby]

I've been wanting that Steam Controller ever since getting a dock for my Steam Deck so I've already added that to my wishlist, ha ha ha

As far as the Steam Machine itself, I think it's a pretty nice piece of kit. It's basically just gonna be a Linux PC with a gaming focused frontend like the Steam Deck, super-customizable on both the software and hardware ends. Now, I already have a Steam Deck and a desktop PC so I don't think I'm gonna be grabbing one, but I'm definitely interested in how expensive it's gonna be. I'd like to see it provide a decently affordable alternative to the current console market and pre-built gaming PCs. I don't think it's gonna sell gangbusters or even make other companies sweat... that said, the Steam Deck is still one of the best handheld PC options out there, so I think the Machine will take a decent chunk of the pie.

but im a little worried if the steam machine is successful then playstation, xbox and nintendo would stop having discs and physical copies. i dont want that!

That's not gonna be why the other companies abandon physical media. As it is they've already done so by such a large margin, with so many physical "copies" that really just act as DRM keys for games you have to download anyway. If they abandon physical media it'll be out of practicality/because it just makes more money, not because the GabeCube sold more than people expected it to.

[MediocreMetastasis]

People are getting mad that valve is pricing the steam machine "like a pc" which is stupid because 1, it is a pc and 2, playstation, xbox, and nintendo sell their console at a loss and make their money from studios publishing their games on their consoles. Valve can't really do that.
People thought the steamdeck was gonna kill the switch but it barely made a dent so I think nintendo and playstation will probably be fine, xbox on the other hand... They were in the works of making a console that runs steam and is basically a pc. Seeming that steam beat them to it and they're already failing heavily in the console market. That will probably be the final nail in the coffin.

I will say if I were to buy it I'd probably buy it for the steamOS. Probably the best linux fork on the market at the moment and they're probably waiting to release it off their hardware once Microsoft does something to windows that affects them negatively.

For half life 3... yeah I don't think so. They do usually release something like that desk job game when they made the steamdeck. I'm gonna predict it's that citadel multiplayer vr game that had assets left in some of their newer games.