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Personally, I'm looking forward to the Steam Machine. I'm not necessarily planning to buy one, though.
I've read so much disparaging commentary on the Steam Deck, and yet it's genuinely been one of my most treasured tech purchases I've made in years. Like I literally do not care that it's "only" 720p. I was able to play games almost the entire 7 hour trip I just took without having to recharge it or plug it in, and the games cost a fraction of what I used to pay for dedicated console games 20 or 30 years ago.
What I'm getting at is all the disparaging commentary on the not even released Steam Machine sounds just as valid (i.e. not at all). No reasonable person is going to buy the Steam Machine expecting cutting edge performance. No reasonable person is expecting this to be the best selling "console" of all time or even this generation. 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem and so could artificially intelligent robots taking over Earth in 2030, could but almost certainly won't.