My main issue is that I don't want or have space for a massive PC tower. And building a small form factor PC is both very expensive and very difficult.
All the components come at a premium price and you also get to spend hours finding obscure forums with exact measurements of cases and components to see if the GPU fits lengthwise or whether a specific CPU + cooler is too tall for the case =)
And even if you make it, you're easily way over 1k€ before get to even picking the M.2 drive and RAM.
Thus: Steam Machine. I click "buy" on Steam, it appears on my doorstep, I plug it in and it'll start working.
All the components come at a premium price and you also get to spend hours finding obscure forums with exact measurements of cases and components to see if the GPU fits lengthwise or whether a specific CPU + cooler is too tall for the case =)
And even if you make it, you're easily way over 1k€ before get to even picking the M.2 drive and RAM.
Thus: Steam Machine. I click "buy" on Steam, it appears on my doorstep, I plug it in and it'll start working.