You're missing the biggest feature for a console gamer: not having to plan a full blown PC build and build it yourself. The whole point of consoles is to be abl

You're missing the biggest feature for a console gamer: not having to plan a full blown PC build and build it yourself. The whole point of consoles is to be able to plug it in and have it just work. While the NUC isn't quite that easy, it's much closer than what you're suggesting. That said, I'm not sure what the NUC gets you over a steam machine. Couldn't Intel sell one with an SSD and RAM in it already and pre-install it with the steam OS?