Valve’s upcoming Steam Machine is far more of a console than it is any variety of PC. As much as the PC gaming audience wants to hold onto Valve as their personal darling, the makers of Half-Life and Steam care more about attracting a new, more casual audience on SteamOS than providing more gas to the same gamers with hundreds, if not thousands, of titles in their Steam library already.

The PC gaming crowd on places like Reddit has focused their ire on the Steam Machine’s specs. The “GabeCube,” as some have taken to calling it as a combination of Valve CEO Gabe Newell and the Nintendo GameCube, uses a “semi-custom” SoC, or system on chip, designed by AMD. While its CPU specs use the more recent Zen 4 microarchitecture, the GPU is based on older hardware. The graphics processin

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