Looks like they blocked Digital Gift cards sending for those regions or at least from a different currency regions so i guess this is why its not working normally. Really hope they won't do it for India anytime soon
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That eneba link says $56.72 for 50$ card. Or do you buy from one of the stores at the bottom? How reliable are those?
I always buy the cheapest one. Never had any problems with redeeming, even though Eneba warns about incorrect region or something.
With processing fees + 10€ discount coupon I usually pay 30-35€ for 50 USD Steam Wallet gift card.
Is there a place where it's possible to download official Steam artwork (cover, background, etc) of games? Say I want to add a "non" "Steam" game that also exists in Steam.
Is there a place where it's possible to download official Steam artwork (cover, background, etc) of games? Say I want to add a "non" "Steam" game that also exists in Steam.
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I generally use this one, but there might be others that I don't know about.
Given what we know about the hardware and if these price "leaks"/mining are true, it's going to be an epic fail. I get it, they are between a rock and a hard place currently with hardware prices soaring, but unlike the Steam Deck, this doesn't really offer a solution to any problem other than "oh look, a cute gabing cube". It's old RDNA 3.0 GPU tech (with no official FSR 4 support by AMD as of Jan 2026 ), 8GB of VRAM in hardware released in 2026 and a low end 6 core laptop CPU.
I don't think so.
Performance wise it's a PS5 pro. Those cost 800 euro's for th 2 tb edition.
This is a bit more expensive, but it's also a more versatile machine that can be used as a PC. And steam offers a way larger and cheaper gaming catalogue then playstation. It's good enough. And if this sells devs can optimise for the steam box.
So this offers the best of both worlds. A relative cheap PC with the convience of a console that has acces to the whole PC game library.
The the main problem is the timing of the release with these inflated hardware prices. Idealy the steam box should have been a bit better then the PS5 pro but that would be to expensive atm. I think Sony and Microsoft would have a hard time releasing anything better today if they would release a new console now.
I don't know how you can justify this at that price.
Took me 2 min to build something better for the same price : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gn4PyW , although I suppose 1 less tb storage when compared to the 1070 priced steam box, but you can just add more later. In fact, the whole point is that you can just upgrade pretty much everything later, as opposed to the steam box. And this is with just consumer prices not whatever discounts valve gets. Unless you just want a cute small box, than I don't know what they're smoking.
I don't think so.
Performance wise it's a PS5 pro. Those cost 800 euro's for th 2 tb edition.
This is a bit more expensive, but it's also a more versatile machine that can be used as a PC. And steam offers a way larger and cheaper gaming catalogue then playstation. It's good enough. And if this sells devs can optimise for the steam box.
So this offers the best of both worlds. A relative cheap PC with the convience of a console that has acces to the whole PC game library.
The the main problem is the timing of the release with these inflated hardware prices. Idealy the steam box should have been a bit better then the PS5 pro but that would be to expensive atm. I think Sony and Microsoft would have a hard time releasing anything better today if they would release a new console now.
It’s not PS5 Pro performance. PS5 Pro has customized hardware with some aspects of RDNA 5, such as ML and ray tracing acceleration that RDNA 3 sorely lacks. The GPU in Machine is also a standard laptop GPU with dedicated low VRAM size, unlike PS5 Pro’s unifier memory. Completely different performance characteristics at the high end games.
Even if equivalent, which they are not, PS5 Pro was released in 2024 as a mid gen console, with next consoles expected in late 2026 (optimistic) or early 2027 (more realistic). This is outdated on the day of its release, and sorely outdated in just one year. Since it’s using laptop parts, you can’t upgrade the CPU or GPU. There aren’t even Thunderbolt 4/5 ports as far as I can see, for an eGPU. So what you see is what you get, a useless paperweight.
And calling it a “PC” doesn’t take into account the Linux it is running. We may feel comfortable with it, but it certainly not the general opinion by people. Valve is notorious with not releasing drivers for their hardware; the Steam Deck is “compatible” with Windows with GPU drivers released from 2023, and Deck OLED took years until GPU driver was released once and, again, never updated. There is no reason to expect a different behavior with these devices.
Here’s a thought experiment; take an RX 480 which is somewhat equivalent to Xbox One X/PS4 Pro GPU (again, not a 1:1, but still closer than PS5 Pro vs RDNA 3.0). It came out in 2016, so a year before Xbox One X came out. Imagine you bought it in 2020-2021, when PS5-era games were starting to release. How long do you reckon it would be useful? Not long:
its running like ass CAUSE AMD DIDNT UPDATE THE DRIVERS ANYMORE... the hardware is perfectly capable of rendering these games . look for the same games on a 1070ti or 1060 where they still got driver updates much longer then AMD COCKROACHES provided
When will these be launching, and how much will they cost?
When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).
Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change. We will keep you updated as much as we can as we finalize those plans as soon as possible.
Valve admits its Steam Machine and Steam Frame will be delayed due to RAM and storage price surges
Valve time strikes again. Three months after announcing a trio of new hardware products, including the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller, Valve has published a blog post detailing their delay. The new hardware was meant to arrive in the first quarter of this year, but this has now been "revisited" to the first half of the year due to the "memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about".
The Steam Machine is likely the major catalyst behind the decision, as the sharp rise in RAM and storage prices could force a rethink for a living room box that was intended to bridge the gap between consoles and entry-level PCs. With RAM and storage prices doubling, tripling or even quadrupling over the past three months, even the relatively modest base model with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and 512GB will now cost significantly more to produce.
This storage shortage joke will unfortunately last until every single person on earth have their own AI datacenter so they can put boobs on their cats to make funny video on Tiktok.
And that they think they did this for free...
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I have not used more cloud services than normal in years. You are only “forced” if you do it.
Exactly. I would say I'm even using less cloud services in recent years since I would rather play disc versions of games on PS5 or DRM free from GOG (with offline installers backed up). I will sooner stop playing games altogether than be a slave to any cloud service (I think Steam is the most "cloud" thing I'm willing to use for gaming).
And the more AI and Tech bros are pumping any cloud shit, the less probable I'll be using it.
If we won't be able to upgrade our computers for 10 years because hardware components will be expensive as hell or not available at all, we'll either quit gaming or switch to cloud.
I hope I'm wrong. But the memory crisis will last until what, 2028? Then there's the storage crisis and given how the GPU market has been doing for the past 5-6 years, shortages are probably to be expected with the new generation.
Subscriptions, subscriptions, subscriptions, this is the future!
Trends shift. Who knows how VC money will trend. Existing AI bubble is nothing without foolish spending. That's not to say "A""I" is useless (it is so far), but even the most useful thing, if it brings no mid-to-long term revenues, money will eventually dry. Crypto was the same way, before it just became a grifter's endgame (Trump). China is now entering more into memory, and sanction was recently lifted by US admin. on chinese memory makers.
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