Thoughts after a few hours of playing with Steam Machine.
- 3D performance is just…meh.
- The system recommends to default to 1080p - am I going back to PS4 days?
- Some games take a looooooong time to boot, what is it doing?
- System UI is easy to use.
- Being able to boot up by pressing a button on Steam Controller is a killer feature.
- Changeable face plate is nice.
- Random boot up videos is a nice touch :)
- Sticks on Steam Controller is a bit looser than my taste.
- Having touch pad is nice, but it is very “touchy” and hard to use.
- It allows me to play Steam games on my living room TV, which is a reason enough to keep it.
- But the price was very unfriendly. Hard to recommend to people unless for research.
Truly sad and disappointing. End of an era
This reminds me a convo I had with my chat, about most of us being the lucky generation to witness the evolution of video games (for me, from SNES/PSX to present) and how awesome it felt being there awing over things like cutscenes looking more realistic as we got new consoles, swapping discs playing certain games went to needing only one disc, making separate shelves for each consoles’ physical copy collections, lending it to friends and end up never getting it back…all great memories
Now “evolution” just feels like “okay what are they gonna take away from us next”