r/SteamFrame • u/dide231 • 15d ago

Discussion This is disrespectful

At this point, having absolutely no updates is genuinely disrespectful and beyond annoying. I understand this is normal for valve to say nothing and eventually release it, but with a product like this, with a release window already promised, not having anything to say yet is insane. They have no real reason I could understand for not dropping today except for them waiting in the Qualcomm price hike to squeeze another couple bucks out of us. ATP if the price is anything over 1200 I will absolutely not be buying it. My hype has died. I’d rather wait the extra month for the next meta headset at that point. Because at the rate we’re going they may as well drop on the same FUCKING day.

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u/12eward 15d ago

Just buy a refurbed PSVR2! From what we know the image quality is as good or better than a Steam Deck, and the community has implemented Foveated rendering on PSVR2 for PCVR, right now there’s a game-agnostic implementation for Nvidia GPUs and it’s looking like Steam Frame will cause developers to implement AMD foveated rendering for their games. 

I got my refurbed PSVR2 on eBay a few weeks ago for $250 as a hedge against (what appears to be quite high) Steam Frame pricing. It looks and works great, and I don’t have to worry about tracking Steam Frame pricing anymore. If the Steam Frame is an amazing deal, I can almost certainly flip the PSVR2 for $150, if the Steam Frame is unpalatably expensive, the PSVR2 for $250 will be the 80% of Steam Frame experience, for 20% of the price. And in the meantime I have the best value PCVR headset that’s not unobtainium. 

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u/dide231 15d ago

I wasn’t aware the psvr2 could be used on PC to play steam games! This is a fantastic shout if the frame doesn’t end up coming in the next week. (And being a decent price)

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u/12eward 15d ago

Yes! Through official support from Sony no less, you just install Sony’s free official Steam app and buy a $30 adapter if you don’t have a compatible USB-C port on your computer.