No PC Gamers get it fine.
If you want to PC Game you either do the leg work or pay the premium for a pre-built box.
If you just want to game then you buy a Console or Handheld.
It's much like anything else. If you want to remodel you bathroom you either do the research or pay the premium to have someone who knows how to do it.
Ok, so where are the Steam Machines then? Are they still coming out, or has there been any progress with that initiative? Maybe they are already out and I just missed the announcement?
Paying a premium makes sense for some people. I'm hoping Steam Machines offer some form of entry level system that will only play less demanding games, because that's all I'm interested in anyway. But the real question ("So Steam Machine still a real thing?") isn't changed by my cheapness.
I am just curious if there have been release dates or official announcements or even any unofficial progress with the whole idea. It seemed like a few PCs self-branded themselves as Steam Machines a year or two ago, but the concept wasn't fully baked at that time and since then I've heard absolutely nothing about the idea. Is this going to take off, and we'll have annual Steam Machine updates and Smart TVs with built in Steam Machines? Or is it vaporware that will just fade out of the public consciousness?
Nothing recent has given me confidence that this is really going to happen - maybe there will always be that divide between PC gaming and convenience and I'll either have to give up or bite the bullet and buy in. I'm hoping that by E3 this year we'll have some kind of meaningful news...