Can't valve just release this but a console version?

1) Remove screen

2) Remove battery

3) Add 2x full sized M.2. SSD slot

4) Add bigger cooler

Couldn't valve just sell this for something like $300?
Would be a very cheap NUC also.

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i thought they already made a console before, and it failed

You do realise you can plug it into the mains, HDMI to your TV, and connect a bluetooth controller, right?

You can install their Steam Linux on any computer.

no normal will ever do this
its not the worst idea but
yes in 2015 and it failed

You just described a ryzen based mini PC running steamOS. The fuck is wrong with you - that shit has been available this whole time.

So a NUC?
Probably but it wouldn't sell because there is no gimmick and it would be another generic product.
The SoC it uses wont fit another M2 slot, AMD APUs are already starved for PCIe lanes.

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To be fair the appeal of the steamdeck is a custom APU that apparently can be churned out rather cheap.

A theoretical deck based console/PC could be cheaper than anything you could build

This is just step 1 bro. They will release a steam machine v2 with Arch Linux based steam os 3+ if the deck does well. You should buy a deck to give them a sell and show them the interest is there otherwise it will die out and that’s it for gaming on Linux. This is the last chance.

Why would they? The point is to grow and solidify the UMPC segment.

Valve never released a console. Steam Machines was an OEM branding program, not one singular system.

>>no normal will ever do this
>people plug laptops into TVs
>people plug gaytendo switch into TVs
>but nobody will plug steam deck into a TV
your post is cope. steam deck is a console

It has other significant downsides. And if price is the only factor - sure. This could be valid. However with the power and heat restrictions it would not be hard to out pace it.

I will give you one thing - with the hardware shortages certain parts might be hard to do if you wanted to keep the price similar. This being said - the GPU on the steam deck would be out performed by reasonably meager hardware on the dedicated GPU side. And CPU - not even remotely difficult.

>what were steam machines

Dude, just buy a cheap laptop with a good APU. The only advantage that the steam deck has over a laptop is that it is a little more portable, but not much more since it is so big.

What laptop would you consider cheap but a good APU?

Just wait for a rdna2 apu nuc

>1) Remove screen
no
>2) Remove battery
no
>3) Add 2x full sized M.2. SSD slot
maybe in version 2
>4) Add bigger cooler
not necessary, it runs well within spec

What do you have against the steam deck? Don't want it? great, wait for Steam OS 3.0, and install it on anything that supports Linux.

>Remove screen
>Remove battery
That would cut like $30 only

UMPCs are too thin and compact to handle crypto mining, which means getting them out to actual Steam users will be much easier for Valve. Making it a set top device would eliminate this benefit. Valve's goal is to gain a foothold in the PC gaymen market that they can maintain after they mining rush eventually dies down.

This. The biggest cost is in the internals.

>That would cut like $30 only

That's probably much more. Screen alone is at least $70.