Project lead says its “mostly for fun” but “my heart is poured in this thing.”…

While I think something like this makes sense, the pricing seems off. For $600 you can build a PC with a desktop GPU. If you want to make it easy to set up, you could just use an off the shelf mini-PC and preinstall everything so a non-technical user can get started without any hassle. I really hope we’ll see more Steam machine like devices in the future.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Tbh I’m kind of worried seeing a software group get into hardware. There are a lot of hidden costs and production issues which provide difficult challenges. I hope they succeed, but I worry this will just flop and cost them a lot of money.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m super confused here…

    EmuDeck is basically a collection of installer scripts that installs EmulationStation and Retroarch. It doesn’t really do much else, and it’s really not a good piece of software at that.

    Why is this person trying to make standalone hardware?