It’s not a terrible price for a unified device that will just work with your steam library. You could save a few hundred building your own but it will be a larger form factor and take a little more messing with to run.
And as the TCO enterprise adage goes: the cost of continued support.
It's one thing to value ones own time spent supporting something at $0, but most people probably shouldn't.
And it's incredibly inefficient to debug and maintain your own custom stack, when Valve can assign a team to do the same thing at orders of magnitude lower unit cost for standardized hardware/software configurations.
It's one thing to value ones own time spent supporting something at $0, but most people probably shouldn't.
And it's incredibly inefficient to debug and maintain your own custom stack, when Valve can assign a team to do the same thing at orders of magnitude lower unit cost for standardized hardware/software configurations.