First Wave Of Steam Machines Arrives In October

[red77star]

It is time for cancer of Gaming industry namely PS4 and XBOX One to die.

 

[burkhartmj]

What 4K? LOL

Dude to play in 4K you nee to have 980 TI that alone costs as much as 2 consoles. How did you expect a consoles that came out 2 years ago to come with a GPU that is as large as half the console and cost 2 times as much? That's not even remotely realistic.

Steam collects data on all users and publishes it for free

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

People who have Steam are gamers and tend to have by far better tech gear than regular people, of these people less that 1% play games on 4K displays. Look under Primary Display Resolution, it's 0.06%, PCs just now firmly adopting 1080P.


Let's say somehow magically 2 years ago Microsoft stuffed two nVidia Titans (that cost $1,000 each) into the Xbox well 4K TVs make up like 6%-10% of TV sales, so chances are if you have a console that can run 4K your TV can not display that.

4K gaming is a pipedream because vast majority of people will not pay $500+ for a GPU and $500 for a monitor. 4K will take off once you can buy a $200 GPU and a $200 monitor, that will take probably 4-5 years..............just in time for new consoles.

There's a huge difference between being able to do something on a PC as a big cost to being able to do something in a small form factor at $300+ price.

While it's true that on PC you need to drop at least $650 to get 4K, consoles have always been touted as being more optimized and efficient than computers. Then there's the fact that in past generations console were sold as considerable loss leaders, losing MS and Sony potentially hundreds of dollars per sale in the hopes that it'd be made up for with game sales and [later] subscription services. While I honestly wouldn't expect 4k60 out of this gen, it was pretty disheartening for them to barely manage 1080p60 out of the gate, moreso because you could build a computer for around the same price and do so much more than you can on a console. The value and performance propositions of consoles pretty much died with this generation, all they have left is convenience and incumbency. If any company is in a position to dethrone them in those regards, it's Valve with Steam.