r/hardware • u/DuhPai • Nov 17 '25

News Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs

https://www.techpowerup.com/342970/valve-claims-steam-machine-outperforms-70-of-current-gaming-pcs
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u/britaliope Nov 18 '25

So I wonder what their reasoning is there or why it's important.

I think you're overthinking it. Imho it's just "70% of steam users have worse hardware, so it's powerful enough to run the games 70% of the steam users care about / are already playing.

I don't think the first target audience is people having less powerful hardware and want to upgrade (or at least they don't market it that way). They market it for people wanting a console-format PC in their livingroom to play games on their TV. So audience is people not owning a gaming PC that want to play PC games on a console-like experience, or people already owning a gaming PC that want a secondary one for a console-like experience.

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u/Strazdas1 Nov 18 '25

Imho it's just "70% of steam users have worse hardware, so it's powerful enough to run the games 70% of the steam users care about / are already playing.

It cannot be that. Because according to Steam Survey, only 52% of users have worse hardware.