It’s just a sort of midrange linux prebuilt, if it’s priced competitively with other prebuilts it’ll be a good lil PC to recommend to people who don’t want to build one. If it’s priced high it’ll just flop like it did the first time.
If it’s anywhere higher than $1000 dollars then it’s going to flop hard. It really needs to be priced in the same way as a Steam Deck OLED or a little higher (I think 800 would be a limit).
I think Valve isn’t giving a price because they don’t have the supply chain manufacturing process down due to tariffs.
More than just being a prebuilt, a big part of what you’re buying is guaranteed compatibility of SteamOS and the hardware.
Given that SteamOS is a pretty stellar gaming Linux distro, and the only reason it’s not widely adopted is hardware/setup compatibility, that is a big deal.
It’s just a sort of midrange linux prebuilt, if it’s priced competitively with other prebuilts it’ll be a good lil PC to recommend to people who don’t want to build one. If it’s priced high it’ll just flop like it did the first time.
If it’s anywhere higher than $1000 dollars then it’s going to flop hard. It really needs to be priced in the same way as a Steam Deck OLED or a little higher (I think 800 would be a limit).
I think Valve isn’t giving a price because they don’t have the supply chain manufacturing process down due to tariffs.
More than just being a prebuilt, a big part of what you’re buying is guaranteed compatibility of SteamOS and the hardware.
Given that SteamOS is a pretty stellar gaming Linux distro, and the only reason it’s not widely adopted is hardware/setup compatibility, that is a big deal.