Time valve decides to announce anything. It's
ginormous humongous ginormous news And so yesterday
we actually got a giant announcement out of valve
Not the first one in this kind of lie, but the
first one made by valve They still can't count
to fucking three But the long -running rumors
are true. They are putting out a steam home console
we do have some basic technical specs on it they're
like it's six times more powerful than a steam
deck right um it's an amd zen 4 it's a custom
gpu from amd 16 gigs of ddr5 and 8 gigs of gddr6
vram there's two models one with a 512 gigabyte
hard drive and one with a 2 terabyte drive both
ssds right why you would have the 512 with a
steam deck Considering steam machine considering
how big video games are you're gonna load like
four games on there and it's gonna be gone Internal
power supply it's got a display port 4k to 48k
at 60 Hertz sports HDR free sync daisy chaining
HDMI 2 .0 for type USB a ports to USB 3 in the
front 2 in the rear It works with other controllers
and PC peripherals It'll wake up with the steam
controller and they showed the controller and
I'm gonna put this on the screen Like it because
it looks absolutely freaking stupid I don't I'm
trying to figure out I Feel like those little
touch pads below the the sticks are gonna do
something Right. Yeah, and I feel like I'm gonna
be holding it and my hands are going to brush
the touchpads and something's going to go wrong.
And I, I really, I don't like the controller.
I hate to say it, but I still like the basic,
like 360 style Xbox controller. So far this and
the PlayStation to like kind of a toss up. But
yeah, that controller looks terrible. The. Thing
itself basically looks like a box. It doesn't
look like anything. Apparently that front plate
is removable, so you could put like custom shit
on the front plate here. I'm sure they'll sell
that. Aside from that, it's a small form factor.
So that's what we know so far. The only thing
that they haven't talked about is how much the
damn thing is going to cost. Right. And that's
where I'm I'm this is where I am on this this
thing. So toss it over to you for a second, Jay.
You heard about this. You saw the specs. You
know quite a bit about PCs and things. What is
your first like initial impression of what they're
putting out here? Yes. So my very professional
technical review is that everything is dumb.
It's stupid. It sucks. The design sucks. You're
not Apple. What the fuck are you doing? The controller
is ugly. Like are the bottom touchpads like supposed
to be like rubbing your nipples. What is that?
Like what is going on? And also it's just Yeah,
my gaming PC is like way better like I don't
know what did they say six times better than
a steam deck steam deck. So yeah, I don't know.
My gaming PC is probably six times better than
this like box of shit. So. I'm hungry, so. I
will do an honest review. This is my honest review.
We're going to edit that first part out. It fucking
sucks. That's my first initial. What what are
your thoughts, Alex? I mean, it's it's a mid
tier gaming PC. That's really what it's a mid
tier game PC in a small form factor. Here's so
again, it's a semi custom GPU. Tough to say whether
that's going to be good. Apparently, the RAM
slots are upgradable. There's some certain things
that are upgradable, but the GPU and the CPU,
I don't think are. And so. You're locked in it's
it's again mid -tier The two things that I'll
say is if you couldn't use other controllers
with it, I would say it's a piece of garbage,
right? I'm gonna use whatever controller I want
with it if I get it because that controller looks
terrible That being said again, I don't know
why you're coming out with a 512 gigabyte version.
It makes no sense to me that's not big enough
to do anything with. I know because of the issues
that I've got with my gaming PC and what I have
to unload and reload and re -download and change
when I get new games. Two terabytes is kind of
the minimum right now. The upside to this is
this. There has been many times in my life where
I've been like, man, I would love to play my
Steam library on my giant TV in my living room.
Right. And I've thought that that would be nice
to be able to play the games that I only own
on Steam in my living room. Right. I just your
computer downstairs now. And again, this is it.
One is move the computer. And this is a smaller
form factor. If I want to leave something in
my living room, aesthetically, this is just nicer
to have around. Right. So I'm. Very met on this.
Here's what's going to turn it for me. I'm betting
right now and let's let's open our little envelopes
and somebody come back later when they release
the price on this. I think the 512 gigabyte one
is 799. And I think the two terabyte one is 1099.
And this is where I. This is where I think they're
going to fall down because even with the expanse
of how much a PS five is right now. Right. I
don't think you can get it into the range of
the other console prices. I don't think you're
going to get it down with those specifications
to five forty nine. And so I think you are going
to severely limit your market of I have an extensive
steam library. And I really want to be able to
play in my living room without moving my fucking
PC. That's really the market here. Right. So
that's that's why I think this is a problem for
them is I don't think so. What did I just say?
Seven ninety nine for the five twelve and ten
ninety nine for the for the two terabyte at best
at best. OK. And I won't be surprised if the
two terabyte version is closer to 1199 or 1299
when they launch it. I mean, do you do you see
any flaw in my logic there? So the only thing
I could think of is. So. They they have to be
going into this understanding that. If they're
going to be competitive. They have to not make
money on this console period because Xbox does
not make money off their console. They lose money
on their console. They make money on accessories
and all the games and everything like that. So
the only thing the only way that you can get
into the console market in my opinion is bringing
your PC like you said. Play your PC games on
the TV. So or you want to get into PC gaming,
but you don't want to build your own PC. It's
a very convenient. You have this stupid little
box like I don't know Hellraiser cube. And then
you can play all the PC games that everyone else
can play, but they have to be willing to lose
money on the console. And I I don't know if they're
going to take that route with it. I generally
agree with you. And so this is the other problem
that they've got somebody in the YouTube chats
bringing this up right now. Do they have an exclusive
game for launch? You can't have an exclusive
game. It's not possible. It runs on Steam OS,
which means any game you put on it is on Steam.
It's on PC. So it's literally impossible. Now.
That being said. That being said. One of the
things that's been bandied about the last 24
hours is Will Valve finally learn to count to
three? Could you launch this with Half Life 3
with like a cool faceplate cover for Half Life
3 and maybe a specialized Half Life 3 controller?
And maybe if you buy a steam. Console, you get
some cool in -game shit. For Half -Life 3 Do
I see them? Possibly doing that Yes, and with
that buoy the initial sale of these consoles
it absolutely would But and exclusively again
I'm trying I could probably be convinced to buy
this if it was Less than $700 Right Yeah, but
I don't think it's gonna be Even if you even
if we go with your theory that they have to lose
money on this console They're gonna lose 50 bucks
on each unit Okay, but they're gonna make it
up with steam games, right? Yeah And we already
know what steams cut is it's it's big. Okay sure
Maybe right But I don't think it's gonna be 700
I think it's gonna be closer to To eight nine
or a thousand and I think that right there especially
in this economy. I Think you've priced everybody
out Yeah, yeah Yeah, I'm at 700 and lower smart
above 700 I don't see them Surviving in this
or like I guess breaking into this market like
I don't Know see like the steam deck when they
release that that at least made some sense, right?
I want to be able to play my steam games on the
go and with cloud saves and everything else I
can be playing cyberpunk 2077 on my PC Sink my
cloud save to my steam deck and then I get on
the bus and play cyberpunk Right that actually
makes a certain amount of sense, right? It's
the portability of the steam deck Makes you go.
Okay, I get why you did this right and I've had
a lot of people tell me they really like their
steam decks right But again, I'm trying to see
who the market for this is Yeah console players
who who can't play PC exclusive games that are
only out on PC But then I would urge you Because
it's not hard. I would urge you just watch a
YouTube video and build your own PC Like yes,
it's gonna be larger than the hell razor cube
I agree but you can upgrade it whenever you want
like I don't buy it. If it's above seven hundred,
don't buy it. Not with these specs. No. I mean,
that's the thing. I want to know more. Twenty
eight CUs, two point four or five gigahertz GPU
max sustained clock. Poor gaming at 60 FPS with
FSR. I want to see somebody who's going to have
to run some crazy benchmarks once this thing
comes out. You know what I mean? Yeah, I'm really
curious. Really, it's it's again, it's going
to be all about the price, especially that two
terabyte model, which is the only one I think
is worth buying. Yeah. That's it, you know Also
and here see I there's see there's so many things
I keep running into Steam OS Does it have I got
to look this up. Does it have discord? Because
or or something like that Yeah The problem is
that for like multiplayer games, everybody plays
on Discord or they used to play invented things
like that. The fact of the matter is. How are
you going to do multiplayer with the steam. Console,
right, where people want to talk to each other,
like, is there going to be integrated voice chat?
I mean, there have to be. You know Yeah, I I
can I love valve I think they're a great company.
They're a super smart company. I I don't I don't
know who the market this is I don't know who
this is for I really don't Okay, well That's
all we got to say on this topic. Let us know
what you think down in the comments below. Are
you planning on picking up this new Steam console?
What do you think of that weird looking controller?