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I think the severity of this issue will be determined by its frequency, but the comparison to the red ring of death is just another piece of poor publicity this thing has been receiving since its price and performance reveals.

      • Action Bastard@lemmy.world@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Unless you’re worried that Steam Machine actually going to be a viable competitor to Xbox and Sony now that they’ve both also raised prices and dropped physical distribution. They lost two more big draws to their ecosystems and neither Sony or Microsoft have nearly as good a reputation for managing online stores.

        Helps to push the angle that steam machines are “unreliable”. We’ll see if more of them turn up or not though. Difference between random hardware failure that happens everywhere and systemic production issue ala the 360 Ring of Death.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Kind of early to call it a nothing burger when the thing isn’t out yet. One user isn’t a lot if it was currently being sold but I imagine the number of steam machines that have gone out isn’t very high yet. That being said, the red ring of death affected something like 30% of units, I doubt the number of steam machine affected is anywhere close to that.

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    321·
    3 months ago

    If 1/1000 systems are DOA and they imported 40k in the US, that means 40 systems should be DOA.

    0.1% of systems having issues would be a pretty common occurrence in consumer electronics. That’s why you have a warranty.

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      151·
      3 months ago

      The article is about a single person having this issue, I’m not sure you can really call the hardware “dodgy” just because a single one (so far) failed.