Article by Metin Ismail of Die4Games.Com
The Steam Machine is on it’s way. Now that the PS4 and XBOX ONE have proven that machines dedicated to gaming are still sort after Valve have even more of a reason to get excited. The real here is “Do the gamers want it?” I have been thinking out this for a while now and I have come up with my own theory. The question I ask myself was “Do I need it?”. My answer is: No not really. Will I buy it? Sure, I’ll give it a try. There are some really controversial subjects within this topic. I have tried to list them in order to help you decide whether or not you’re going to buy one.
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You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
VS
The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
well it's technically better than Xbox one and Ps4 but i guess it won't find a market
It's not. After reading more into it. It's an important stepping stone into making Linux a serious gaming platform. With SteamOS it gives devs a lightweight and standard distro on which they can work on. It also provides a more streamlined gaming OS like on consoles with little overhead so should use less resources & improve performance somewhat.
Even though SteamOS is going to be free it needs some way to which it can find a wider audience as well as show devs it's a serious platform and the Steam machines are just that.
They are consoles but unlike traditionally where there is one hardware base, steam machines will offer multiple hardware configs to suit your budget/performance metric. The machines will come with all the necessary items to get going. SteamOS, Controller, HDD. They also have the advantage of allowing you to install any other OS.
So for average gamers who have been wanting to get into PC gaming or have a hard time choosing between the two then this is the probably the most complete gaming package they can get for the money.
For me I would rather build my own & just install SteamOS when it's ready :)
pointless.. won't sell if you have a pc stick to that.
No, it's not.
People seem to think this is a small PC which you just plug a mouse + keyboard in to.
No, it's a console which has its own controller and custom Operating System, just like how the PS4 and Xbox One are.
This platform is simply more open for other hardware manufacturers to join in on the fun.
You could also turn your own PC in to one, but I don't think this is really the point of SteamOS.
I don't see what market they are going for
Most PC Gamers will have built their own gaming rigs and most people I know get very attactched to them.
Console gamers have the PS4/Xbox One/Wii U
If the Steam Machine was to try and bridge that gap between PC Gaming and Console Gaming while having it so Console Gamers could easily have an easy built PC then why didn't they just do a full on console. Why have multiple ones to choose from, with different graphics card etc.
Not to mention most console gamers are not going to like the controller. I don't and thats by looking at it...without analogue sticks I don't see it appealing the mass console gaming crowd.