I could barely contain my excitement when Valve announced the new Steam Machine. In fact, I even said I might ditch my gaming PC for the Steam Machine. The promise of a small PC gaming device, presumably nearly as powerful as a PS5, was tempting. However, my initial enthusiasm has cooled in subsequent weeks.

We learned a great deal about the Steam Machine when it was unveiled. Valve claims it will be six times more powerful than the Steam Deck OLED and capable of running games at 4K resolution at 60 frames per second (with FSR enabled). The system will come in 512GB and 2TB flavors, and we can expect bundles that include the new Steam Controller. The fact that the system is a small 6-inch(ish) cube is just icing on the cake.

While all of that sounds great, we didn’t get the most importan

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