Valve finally revealed its Steam Machine earlier this week, and while you'd probably expect everyone to be overjoyed given how much hype there was surrounding the thing, the reaction has actually been fairly muted. That's mainly because of the system's price, which will set you back over $1,000 for the cheapest model, and climbing if you want more memory.
To make matters even worse, tech experts quickly dived into the system to see how it runs, and the answer was a resounding "meh." While the Steam Machine can run older triple-A tiles fairly well, it has struggled to make more modern titles even playable, with games like Black Myth Wukong, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Cyberpunk 2077 all running below 30fps.
That's a little bit disappointing given the price, but also because Valve seemed to suggest that the Steam Machine was capable of reaching 60fps regardless of the game. Under the CPU and GPU section of the Steam Machine's big Steam page, it was promised that the system was capable of "4K gaming at 60fps with FSR", but that seems to have been quietly changed.
First spotted by ResetEra user Neat, the description underneath the...
