If their customer base is poor enough that this is their level of base system specs on average... where's the demand to shell out presumably over half a grand+ after taxes, in this economy no less, for this thing going to come from? Steamdeck sold cause it's a true "handheld" portable device that does something their PCs can't.... what's the purpose/market for this thing supposed to be? Some unheard demographic of millions of 16 year olds who are DYING to play Counterstrike on their living room TV instead of their already existing multi-monitor setup? Just so they can get lit up in-game trying to use that donkey ass controller vs. a sweaty mouse and keyboard player?
If this was like ~$450 MAX, maybe with Half-Life Alyx packaged in as a "launch title" bundled with the VR headset for this holiday I could see it being tempting for the console-only crowd who can't afford/can't be bothered to look into building even a barebones setup and want access to anything that can run Steam's library. But this thing's probably going to cost more than the base PS5/series X.... while being a weaker system, and coming in after the Switch 2 has finally started to fill out it's library with real hitters like Metroid Prime 4. Half Life 3 better be real and NOT coming to any other console/storefront outside of Steam if that's the case... 
