Former PlayStation Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has tweeted a candid, mixed review of Valve's brand-new Steam Machine after spending a few hours with the new hardware, offering one of the more prominent early takes from a veteran industry voice. Yoshida's initial tweet admittedly reads like a checklist of small wins and notable frustrations rather than a wholesale endorsement or dismissal. He flagged that 3D performance felt underwhelming and that the system defaults to 1080p, a detail that struck him as reminiscent of the PS4 era rather than current-generation hardware capable of standing toe-to-toe with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series […]

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Valve has officially launched the Steam Machine today, revealing its incredibly expensive price tag that we all expected due to the ongoing component crisis. With a starting price of $1,049 for the most basic version of the Machine without a Steam Controller bundled in, it's a big hit to players' wallets, especially when living essentials everywhere are getting more expensive. But that's the way it ought to be, according to Valve, and it's the way that you should want it to be, for the good of the PC ecosystem. That's what Valve is telling players in its launch announcement, and […]

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