Nobody could have predicted the turbulent state that console gaming is in right now.

The Steam Machine is not quite a console and not quite a gaming PC. It’s the best of both worlds, and I’ve compared it to the PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Mac mini to prove it.

A week ago, no one knew how many typos plagued the Epstein files, the Steam Machine was little more than a social media leak, and 16 games were in the running for Polygon's Game of the Generation (deemed by you in our week-long reader poll,

Now that Valve has announced its Steam Machine, it is logical to ask whether it is more powerful than the current generation consoles from both PlayStation (PS5 and PS5 Pro) and Xb

The PlayStation 5 is now up to 84.2 million copies sold after shifting an additional 3.9 million units during the three-month period ending September 30, Sony has announced.

This new number places the PS5 at ninth place in the top-selling consoles of all time list, and as spotted by The Gamer this number also places it above the Xbox 360 (which reportedly sold just around 84 million) meaning that the PS5 has now beaten every single Xbox console to date in sales.

The main concern is that the Steam Machine has only 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM allocated to its GPU. Modern AAA games, especially when targeting high resolutions like 4K, are becoming increasingly VRAM-hungry, with many experts suggesting 12GB to 16GB is necessary for future-proofing.

Any conversation about what made the original Xbox great will inevitably circle back around to Halo. You can create the most technically advanced piece of hardware out there, but without system-selling games that take advantage of it,