Yeah I think they totally missed the mark. I mean it sort of needed to compete at least in a middle ground with consoles and not immediately have videos comparing it to similar/slightly cheaper DIY PCs that would out perform it. Consoles have always had the edge of being (even now, what $650 or a PS5?) the easy option with a consistent experience for low end PC price.

This is offering really none of that, and honestly I don't totally buy that it's only due to hardware prices, they just think they will sell it anyway so they jacked the price up. I haven't dug around, but there's loads of mini PC manufacturers now and I bet if not already it's not long before they dump the same CPU/GPU chips on a board and sell it for $300 less.