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[rodrigolfp]

To each to their own, I find there's a lot of friction points with that, you have to flip over to a wireless mouse and keyboard often to do basic things in Windows.

Imagine you're coming from a console, where you can wake the system up with a controller, and it boots directly into the console UI. And now you have to fiddle with things on PC every time you want to play a game.. it seems small, but it's death by a thousand cuts for daily use.

SteamOS is going to replicate console like use case much better than Windows can currently. I think windows works best with a computer monitor at a desk currently.

You can use Steam Big Picture mode, Xbox Full Screen Experience, controllers analog sticks and/or track pads too, etc etc...

 

[yet_another_alt]

To each to their own, I find there's a lot of friction points with that, you have to flip over to a wireless mouse and keyboard often to do basic things in Windows.

Imagine you're coming from a console, where you can wake the system up with a controller, and it boots directly into the console UI. And now you have to fiddle with things on PC every time you want to play a game.. it seems small, but it's death by a thousand cuts for daily use.

SteamOS is going to replicate console like use case much better than Windows can currently. I think windows works best with a computer monitor at a desk currently.

I don't know if you have actually used SteamOS but PC games can be fiddly no matter what operating system. It's even worse when you actually need to fiddle with something beneath the console like UI. I swear the file system for games using Proton is a clusterfuck.

 

[SupremeJ]

To each to their own, I find there's a lot of friction points with that, you have to flip over to a wireless mouse and keyboard often to do basic things in Windows.

Imagine you're coming from a console, where you can wake the system up with a controller, and it boots directly into the console UI. And now you have to fiddle with things on PC every time you want to play a game.. it seems small, but it's death by a thousand cuts for daily use.

SteamOS is going to replicate console like use case much better than Windows can currently. I think windows works best with a computer monitor at a desk currently.

I solved this by using a wireless keyboard with a built-in touchpad. I use the gamepad for storefronts and gaming, while the wireless keyboard handles adjusting RivaTuner profiles and using the Nvidia app. I think this is essential on a PC, though it's no big deal. It will only offer a truly console-like experience if we play PC games on dedicated hardware—like the Steam Machine (which is very entry-level) or the upcoming Xbox Helix, provided it supports Steam.

 

[yet_another_alt]

I solved this by using a wireless keyboard with a built-in touchpad. I use the gamepad for storefronts and gaming, while the wireless keyboard handles adjusting RivaTuner profiles and using the Nvidia app. I think this is essential on a PC, though it's no big deal. It will only offer a truly console-like experience if we play PC games on dedicated hardware—like the Steam Machine (which is very entry-level) or the upcoming Xbox Helix, provided it supports Steam.

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

I'll alleviate you of one of your fears off the bat. Prices will not come down. They will, at best, stabilize (and that's like a 3+ year out timeframe). You don't have to buy right now, but don't hold out hopes for a 50% price drop from a speculative market crash.

You've also really helped by providing an example of the types of games you want to play. VR gaming can be graphically demanding, but not necessarily so much as if you wanted to play games at the highest graphics fidelity.

My suggestion would be to go with a prebuilt, to reduce the complexity of your purchase. Then, as far as GPU cards go, you should probably aim for around the Nvidia 5070TI or AMD 9070XT. In any case, you'll want a GPU with the higher end of VRAM availability 12~16GBs+. The reason being that VR games tend to render a lot of textures very close up, constantly, meaning they tend to chew through the VRAM cache.