I don’t quite understand the criticism. It’s not gonna be top of the line, but it’s more than enough to replace my dying laptop from 2015 that I pretty much only ever use like a desktop anyway. And I can save myself the time and effort of picking parts, building, and dealing with shit not working as expected.
Don’t be surprised when one or both of them starts doing some shady shit to sabotage things if Valve starts eating a larger market share.
They’re going to have to walk a tightrope to pull that off. There is so much choice in the video game market now that its like drinking from a fire hose, so if some games start to not work due to sabotage, while many others don’t, that could backfire on them.
Especially since Valve is one of the only large companies with a positive public image, while Microsoft and its countless subsidiaries are basically regarded as Voldemort, its not hard to imagine a public pissing match not going their way.