When Valve introduced its Steam Machine cube gaming console/PC, the gaming community began questioning the hardware choices and Valve's performance claims. However, a Valve engineer stated that the Steam Machine is more powerful than 70% of gaming PCs on the market, based on Steam Survey data. It fe...
“Outperforms 70% of Gaming PCs” is the sort of statistic you’d only quote if you thought it sounded more impressive than it actually was, and it already doesn’t sound impressive.
(edit: genuinely surprised how controversial a statement that turned out to be?)
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“Outperforms 70% of Gaming PCs” is the sort of statistic you’d only quote if you thought it sounded more impressive than it actually was, and it already doesn’t sound impressive.
(edit: genuinely surprised how controversial a statement that turned out to be?)
It doesn’t read to me like they think it’s impressive. It reads to me like they they are clarifying their market.
A challenge will be how many laptop PC users who game on it because that’s all they have/can afford can be converted into steam machine buyers.