A review of the CyberPower Syber Steam Machine has popped up on the Trusted Reviews website, and it seems a little on the positive side for the hardware. They gave it a 7/10 overall, which is pretty good. Their thoughts on SteamOS aren't as good though, which is represented by their final verdict.
It's interesting for me personally to note their issues with Dying Light crashes, nice to know I'm not the only one that has the game quit out on me. Not good that Steam Machine reviewers are also seeing it, as it will leave a bad taste in new users mouths. I'm glad they do note Dying Light's performance issues on Linux are well documented though.
Stuff like this has me worried:
QuoteWe’ll blame early teething troubles, but the system arrived with its wireless LAN card non-functional
That sort of thing just shouldn't happen in a unit like this, you would be buying one to not have to deal with configuring hardware. Bit of a shame really, but no hardware is perfect.
Overall, it sounds like a pretty decent machine (apart from that wifi issue in this particular unit) that performs reasonably well (as well as Linux games do anyway).
Their ending notes aren't too good for us though, they suggest going for the Windows machine due to the games available. I hope that eventually we will see sites look at what we do have, and not what we don't. I've said it before though, we need more AAA games no matter what people in our comments think about them, as they help sell it to the people that the general public will be taking at their word.
Thanks for pointing it out Henrique. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Honestly, I don't even know if Valve is still serious about SteamOS. It seems as if they are just doing an experiment. If you go to Steam's Hardware page you'll see most of the games advertised there don't support SteamOS. So, if Valve is not bothering to advertise SteamOS properly on Steam, who will? Also, Valve is not even bothering to respond to all the bad media about SteamOS's performance. It feels as if it was just a temporary project: make it, release it, then forget about it and get back to regular business. When Sony or Microsoft release a new console, they go to game studios and make sure new releases target their platform. Valve didn't even bother to do that. We don't need old AAA games ported to SteamOS, we need to make sure new AAA games will target SteamOS; that's what matters to most people, old AAA games matters to only very few gamers.
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Mohandevir Nov 24, 2015
Quoting: BdMdesigNQuoting: MohandevirWhen I look at the "Featured Items" in the Steam client I see the Steam Controller, the Steam Link but there's no trace of anything about the Steam Machines (I don't know if it's just my case) . It just feels like Valve knows too that the Steam Machines are not ready for "prime time" but they released it for us, Linux enthousiasts, to be an "open beta tester group".
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No and for you again: the Steam Machine is not build from Valve and you can't buy the Steam Machines directly in the Steamshop.
They are in the Steam Store only advertised.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/353530/ <-- No "Buy" or "In Shopping Cart" Button.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/353390/ <-- No "Buy" or "In Shopping Cart" Button, only a "Visit Website" Button.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/353420/ <-- No "Buy" or "In Shopping Cart" Button.
You can buy the Steam Machine only over the Manufacturer Shops (Alienware, Syber and Zotc).
The Zotac SM you can buy in other Shops, too. But not in Steam Shop.
Thats the reason why only the Steam Link and the Steam Controller are in the "Featured Items (Topseller)" Tab in Steam Store and not the Steam Machines.
This I already know. Are you from Valve?
Because I understand but it doesn't make sense to me. A link to the Steam Machines page could have been included in the featured items (because there's a page that regroups the 3 models at the same adress). Else, it sends the message that they don't care about them and SteamOS.
Las year, they announced the 10 Steam Machines builders with big fanfare and links everywhere in the Steam client but now that it is really time, a sale for SteamOS games and an ad that lasted for 3 days... For my part, It's really weird and much less convincing.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 24 November 2015 at 12:13 am UTC
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Probably Valve is still not happy with SteamOS performance due to current generation of drivers, so they would just as soon have mostly Linux gamers buying Steam boxes until Vulkan gets a stable release and gets game engine support. At that point in the future, they can come up with some excuse to do a big marketing push for SteamOS and Steam boxes, and try to get some market share among the console-using masses.
That said, there was a 1-day sale for Syber Steam boxes featured on Steam today, and they managed to sell out both the low-end and mid-range models in less than a day
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/landingpages/syber/
I'm curious what kind of quantities that was... probably wasn't a huge stock, mostly aimed at early adopters.
That said, there was a 1-day sale for Syber Steam boxes featured on Steam today, and they managed to sell out both the low-end and mid-range models in less than a day
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/landingpages/syber/
I'm curious what kind of quantities that was... probably wasn't a huge stock, mostly aimed at early adopters.
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