Steam Machine Review in Progress: So Many Questions for Such a Little Box
The first thing that hit me after unboxing Valve's Steam Machine at home was: wow, this is small. I'd already seen this thing in person last November, but its size still impressed me.
Steam Machine is smaller than a PlayStation 5. It's smaller than an Xbox. It's a cube you could put next to your TV easily, or carry in a box on a vacation with friends, which is what I did. It's shockingly portable. But dense. And you do still need a power outlet and TV or monitor to plug into.
This isn't a Steam Deck. Steam Machine is Valve's return to trying to make a PC game console -- and unfortunately, it's arriving at a terrible time. Electronics prices for computer components such as RAM and SSD storage are going through the roof, and game consoles including the PlayStation and Xbox are seeing price hikes, even on...
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