Alienware's general manager spoke to another site about his thoughts on Steam Machines and how he feels theirs will sell. The news comes from Wall Street Journal although unless you subscribe to them you won't be able to read the full article.
Frank Azor the general manager at Alienware stated this:
It looks like Alienware are being realistic, Steam Machines will be a gradual build up and not an instant success in my eyes. I imagine other companies doing Steam Machines feel exactly the same about them.
It's a financial risk for a company to put out Steam Machines that much is obvious as if it flops they have a bunch of customized PC's they have to get rid of somehow. With Steam's massive user base it could sell better than a lot of companies think it will if Valve can push it enough, this is most likely why Alienware and other companies got involved since it has massive potential.
We have seen massive influx of Linux games in the past year and it looks to continue all the way through this year. The amount of articles we put up here is proof of that.
I will be buying a Steam Machine + Steam Controller myself to hook up to my living room TV even though I already have a pretty damn good PC since it opens up game streaming too. I do wonder how many other people will be looking to do the same.
What will you be doing about SteamOS and Steam Machines? Will you buy one to show your support or roll your own? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Frank Azor the general manager at Alienware stated this:
QuoteThis will absolutely be the least profitable system we ever sell.
It looks like Alienware are being realistic, Steam Machines will be a gradual build up and not an instant success in my eyes. I imagine other companies doing Steam Machines feel exactly the same about them.
It's a financial risk for a company to put out Steam Machines that much is obvious as if it flops they have a bunch of customized PC's they have to get rid of somehow. With Steam's massive user base it could sell better than a lot of companies think it will if Valve can push it enough, this is most likely why Alienware and other companies got involved since it has massive potential.
We have seen massive influx of Linux games in the past year and it looks to continue all the way through this year. The amount of articles we put up here is proof of that.
I will be buying a Steam Machine + Steam Controller myself to hook up to my living room TV even though I already have a pretty damn good PC since it opens up game streaming too. I do wonder how many other people will be looking to do the same.
What will you be doing about SteamOS and Steam Machines? Will you buy one to show your support or roll your own? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I guess not very profitable in comparison to the overhead of making and selling them.
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Lordpkappa May 21, 2014
I guess not very profitable in comparison to the overhead of making and selling them.It's my opinion too.
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pretty much what Mike said!
i would go with FX8320 though..which is just £15 more . so you can get the more tasks on the same time and its more future proof since the new generation of consoles are the same 8 core as well.
though 6300 is still super good.
buying a gaming pc nowadays isnt that expensive..most expensive part is the GPU. CPU isnt that important for most of the games..
i always laugh when some Gaming Laptops coming with i7 4770M or similar and then have some random crappy nvidia 640M ... why the fcuk you put that expensive CPU to your gaming machine...
Would have gone with the FX8320, but not sure of that PSU can handle the power consumption. But yeah, if you have a good PSU and an extra £15, that's a better choice.
I think after my current experience (i5 with 640m), I would say why bother getting a "gaming" laptop at all? They're normally at least £500, but for £600 you can get a gaming PC like the build above (which has 3x or more performance than one of these laptops) to do heavy-duty things and spend the rest on a celeron laptop for browsing and such (which would be able to handle stuff like FTL or Papers Please just fine). Laptops break all the time and go obsolete really quickly with no option of upgrading, so spending more than £300 on one is pointless (in hindsight) and not to mention the over-heating you get with putting a gaming GPU in such a small space. My advice to anyone looking to get a gaming laptop - you're just wasting money on an expensive swiss army knife that can't do anything well and for the same money you can have two devices which do.
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