I am curious how exactly will Steam integration work. Knowing MS, it’s likely going to be clunky and subpar.

Was this posted in self-hosted because the term is vaguely associated with the concept of getting pregnant?

Sounds like it’s going to be UE6: Fortnite.

Hopefully Godot can make more improvements by the time of UE6’s release.

Just like their original benchmarks were showing 3000+ in Geekbench ST and then not even a single device came close to this result.

I would argue if your budget allows you to, it’s better to get 8 cores.

Any benefit for paying for 12 or 16?

Only if you do demanding use cases other than gaming. One example is video editing and encoding (the type that should not be done on a GPU).

Some games do benefit from having 16 cores, things like economic strategy games with lots of background simulation (one example would be path finding).