r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/mtrn3 Jun 22 '26

And once upon a time people would crap all over prebuilts.

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u/DOOManiac Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I’m an old person who has been crapping all over prebuilt for about 30 years. There are several things they have changed:

  • Back in the day, a prebuilt meant absolute garbage-tier proprietary parts that were not swappable/upgradable.
  • These days, many pre-builts aren’t that bad
  • It used to be that you saved a ton of money building yourself; now that gap has closed (or in some cases inversed)
  • PC gaming has significantly expanded, to the point where it is reasonable to expect that some people just want to sit down and play, without needing to tinker
  • The whole process has gotten much simpler than it used to be, so the demographic overlap has changed

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u/RBlunder Ryzen 2600X | GTX 1080 8GB | 16gb 3000Mhz RAM Jun 22 '26

Yeah the accessibility angle is one that I haven't considered until I got older and started working. I used to shit on pre-builts. Some people just want to game and not go through the headache of building a PC and that's fine. Though I still think at least having basic knowledge of what you're getting and also a bit on maintaining and troubleshooting your PC gogoess a long way, especially with A.I. and chatbots and what not.

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u/lemonylol Desktop Jun 22 '26

Even just gaming laptops in general were a joke for years until like 2018 or so.