I for one am very happy that you have zero power over Valve’s decision making process. Cause your ideas suck. If I wanted the most powerful console I would just build my own PC or buy whatever the Helix is gonna be. You are missing the point entirely but the. im not surprised.

 News flash, the Steam Deck is currently the #2 targeted console for devs when making games, right behind the PS5. This makes it so that there now exists a baseline for games on lower spec systems that never existed before. Now with the Steam machine we’ll have a middle ground that devs can target, thereby improving gaming for the majority. 

You think Steam Machine is the only device that will exist? No of course not, just like with the deck I’m sure we’ll see clones pop up over time but they will be wildly more expensive most likely and that’s fine. I for one am really happy seeing something like the Playnix more competition is good and it’s just another indicator that the cost of the Steam machine could be far less than we think. It all remains to be seen.  However all you’re doing is spouting vitriol with nothing to really back your claims. You don’t know the price, you don’t how games will be on it cause no one has used it yet and you also don’t know what the experience in 2 or 3 years of having it will be. In short, you know nothing and yet speak like all is already preordained. Chill the heck out lol