Valve Says Cheaper PC Builds Could Beat Its Steam Machine
TL;DR
Valve concedes its Steam Machine is expensive and suggests gamers may be better off turning a cheaper PC into a Steam Machine with SteamOS, highlighting Steam’s open PC approach and promising ongoing updates (like hardware-accelerated ray tracing) and broader third‑party support to improve performance.
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