PC builders aren’t interested in prebuilts. If this provides 90% of the experience of a prebuilt at 50% of the price, it makes sense. We don’t know the actual percentages yet but you get the idea hopefully.

My point was that many prebuilts are so shit, that it’s easy to make a comparatively good product. I mean ffs some of them don’t even run their CPUs and RAM at advertised speeds.

Laptops are a completely different breed that this thing isn’t gonna compete with, not at 800 bucks, not at 200.

Prebuilt PC market is fucked, it could be 800 and sell like crazy, if the experience is good

Also some of those old steam machines were comically expensive, in part because all the different vendors wanted a cut, in part because some of them made new cases

edit: found a spec sheet for the cheapest version of Bolt II, for almost $1800 you got a gtx 760 and i5 4590, 16 gigs of ddr3, 120gb ssd + 1tb hdd. All of it air cooled. I don’t remember new hardware prices back then but it seems steep. And it’s far from the most expensive one.

edit2: on the other end of the spectrum, for $400 (without an OS) you could get ibuypower’s SBX with an athlon x4 840, 4 gigs of ram and an r5 250X

Steam deck has customization you can buy with their points, I could see them getting some extra game sales that way

Or they’ll just copy Respawn