Valve has officially revealed pricing and availability details for the Steam Machine, its new living room-focused gaming PC, with pre-orders opening ahead of a June 29 launch.
True. And maybe there will emerge a new group of people who use a living room computer in a new way, and that might really mix things up.
But I still think that the principal market here is most-likely going to be people who are looking to use it in basically the same way that they have a console, and will probably have roughly the same price sensitivity.
EDIT: One factor in the Steam Machine’s favor is going to be the vastly-larger existing launch library compared to the other consoles listed. The Steam store currently has 115,106 items in the “Game” category listed. Hard to quantify the impact of that, since we don’t really have data points for anything on that scale (though maybe someone could still try to look for correlation between launch library size and sales — consoles have had varying level of backwards compatibility).
True. And maybe there will emerge a new group of people who use a living room computer in a new way, and that might really mix things up.
But I still think that the principal market here is most-likely going to be people who are looking to use it in basically the same way that they have a console, and will probably have roughly the same price sensitivity.
EDIT: One factor in the Steam Machine’s favor is going to be the vastly-larger existing launch library compared to the other consoles listed. The Steam store currently has 115,106 items in the “Game” category listed. Hard to quantify the impact of that, since we don’t really have data points for anything on that scale (though maybe someone could still try to look for correlation between launch library size and sales — consoles have had varying level of backwards compatibility).
I know three console-only people who have signed up to the list/queue for the reason it’s both a PC and a console.