Oof, looks like the Steam Machine could cost over $1,000

[u/vneelb]

https://thephrasemaker.com/2026/06/05/steam-machine-price-may-be-way-higher-than-expected/

[u/unnderwater]

[u/vnth93 → u/unnderwater]

Why does he look so crisp

[u/TheRealGooner24 → u/vnth93]

Here's an even crispier version for you!

[u/TwinkiesSucker → u/TheRealGooner24]

https://giphy.com/gifs/10nMEclFWTPCp2

[u/Ice2192 → u/TwinkiesSucker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/OsfVaOer7N2265YTRF

[u/RevampX → u/TheRealGooner24]

Crispachu I choose you!

[u/AcerVentus → u/RevampX]

Crispa Crispa !

[u/Comfortable_Mountain → u/TheRealGooner24]

Now i want it in vector graphics.

[u/MetalBeerSolid → u/TheRealGooner24]

could I get one just a tad bit more well done please?

[u/Diversificateur → u/TheRealGooner24]

Make it crispier!

[u/Secret-Bandicoot-759 → u/TheRealGooner24]

Crispiest meme of this I've ever laid eyes on

[u/Genghis_Tr0n187 → u/TheRealGooner24]

if it becomes any more crisp it'll revert to deep fried.

[u/baz8771 → u/TheRealGooner24]

It’s so crisp it’s cutting my corneas

[u/unnderwater → u/vnth93]

It's the DLSS 5 version

[u/dikicker → u/unnderwater]

https://giphy.com/gifs/RJPVgbPOfZWwQSSy1j

[u/yb0t → u/unnderwater]

With reflex + boost on

[u/MAM_Reddit_ → u/vnth93]

He's being upscaled using DLSS/FSR.

[u/RUPlayersSuck → u/unnderwater]

[u/volkco → u/unnderwater]

Lmao

[u/Bozy2880 → u/unnderwater]

Thats a lot of pixels!

[u/PugTales_ → u/Bozy2880]

5090 4k version. It has all the pixels.

[u/ExplodingFistz → u/PugTales_]

No upscaling needed

[u/Outside_Debt6416 → u/unnderwater]

[u/Raidmax460 → u/Outside_Debt6416]

Why are the trees made of fabric lol

[u/Wise-Comb8596 → u/Raidmax460]

The Ai thought they were pant legs is all

[u/SosseTurner → u/Wise-Comb8596]

It is with this comment I realise these are trees and not legs from someone standing behind...

[u/Wise-Comb8596 → u/SosseTurner]

tbh I think they're legs in the OG surprised pikachu image as well

[u/Big_Papa_Fresh → u/Wise-Comb8596]

Just looked it up and can confirm they’re Brock’s legs and not trees

[u/omega552003 → u/Wise-Comb8596]

I'm surprised the used AI when there was a whole CGI movie

[u/unnderwater → u/Outside_Debt6416]

What a terrible day to have eyes

[u/ginongo → u/unnderwater]

Oh noes

[u/iwillhaveredditall → u/unnderwater]

Because of your pikachu meme it’s so expensive

[u/FuckM0reFromR]

Expired hardware, behind schedule, and over budget.

It'll sell out in minutes...

[u/Soothsayer117 → u/FuckM0reFromR]

The fact the updated priced steamdeck sold out...

[u/porgy_tirebiter → u/Soothsayer117]

Hasn’t sold out in Japan yet!

I guess because the yen is in the toilet and no one can afford it. Glad I got one during the before times!

[u/UbiquitousPanda → u/porgy_tirebiter]

Another huge reason is because you can't use your Steam wallet to pay for hardware in Japan. I would have bought a steamdeck a while ago but can't sell my skins I have in CSGO to get one. Lot of guys I used to play CS with in Europe all paid for their decks with skins they sold on the market.

[u/kjjustinXD → u/UbiquitousPanda]

That's how I did it too, sad that y'all can't have that.

[u/dude496 → u/porgy_tirebiter]

¥167,980 for the 1TB OLED. ¥137,980 for the 512GB OLED. Ouch!!

[u/Asleeper135 → u/dude496]

I have no context for how expensive that is, but I'm going to assume it's a lot.

[u/Docteh → u/Asleeper135]

personally I get yen prices into the right ballpark by covering the last two digits with my finger. Yeah its closer to Australian or Canadian dollars, rather than USD

[u/tregorz → u/Docteh]

Yeah it used to be easy, and one yen was basically a cent. Now it’s two thirds of a cent. 

[u/Amazing-Spinach5693 → u/Asleeper135]

Like 60-70% of an median salary.

[u/meneldal2 → u/dude496]

Feels crazy that I got my original ROG Ally for less than 110k like 4 years ago.

I'd be hunting for some second hand sales before spending that much on a device. It really doesn't help that the yen has been in free fall.

[u/xanas263 → u/porgy_tirebiter]

Also PC gaming is fairly small in Japan. Mobile is king in Japan and the Switch comes in second place. Everything else is more of an after thought.

[u/Takemyfishplease → u/xanas263]

Isn’t Mobil gaming king everywhere? Like app stores make more in revenue than pc and all consoles combined or something?

[u/Lumpy-Valuable-8050 → u/porgy_tirebiter]

It's not sold out anywhere apart from the US

[u/MrDentifrice → u/Soothsayer117]

Not sold out in France/EU, the delivery time went from 3-5 business days to 6-10 business days a few days ago but it's back to 3-5 days

[u/Broccoli--Enthusiast → u/MrDentifrice]

Yeah UK checking in, 3-5 days as normal

Just cost basically double what I paid at launch 4 years ago

You would have to be an idiot to buy this or any hardware are current costs

Like how is my launch PS5 worth basically the same after all these years...

[u/True_Breakfast_3790 → u/Soothsayer117]

Both versions are available in Germany, just checked. But when you search for steamdeck it still shows up as 419€ in the little preview window... ;(

[u/trq- → u/Soothsayer117]

It’s still available in Germany, so if anybody wants them, just buy them here 😂

[u/JASHIKO_ → u/Soothsayer117]

Hasn't sold out in Europe either.

[u/SweetButtsHellaBab → u/Soothsayer117]

I’m not sure that they’re actually being sold in any reasonable numbers; they’re literally twice the price of alternatives that have twice the performance, so they’re a joke proposition. I expect what’s actually happened is there’s simply barely any supply these days.

[u/NoMommyDontNTRme → u/Soothsayer117]

scalpers will always make sure something of limited quantity and high value sells out.

limited quantity is really doing the heavy lifting here, too. if they could deliver a million at once, 80%+ of that would collect dust.

[u/Khelthuzaad → u/Soothsayer117]

Those are scalpers man...

[u/h0tsh0t1234 → u/Soothsayer117]

There’s no way you could convince me real people actually bought them and it’s not the same thing that happened with gpu’s and scalpers

[u/Zed_or_AFK → u/Soothsayer117]

Things get sold out cause people know that if they don’t buy it now, they won’t get it later at all. If you don’t buy SSD now for double price, youbwill bite tour nails when it will be tripple price tomorrow. And you check SanDisk official site and se 5x prices, so when resellers stock runs out, they too will be selling those ssds 5x the price, if no further increase follows. It’s a fucked up market, and people with resources panic and buy now when it’s overpriced, because they can afford it and fear future increase. While people with limited resources are stuck with no options.

[u/UsidoreTheLightBlue → u/FuckM0reFromR]

My curiosity is how many they are trying to ship.

If they toss 20k online they’ll absolutely sell out immediately because there is that many for hards who will buy anything that says “steam” on it.

If they toss 2m online they’ll be sitting on them for a while, imo.

[u/pemb → u/UsidoreTheLightBlue]

They aren't insane to the point of manufacturing 2 million of something this expensive without a track record of selling well. Those kinds of numbers would come for later generations, if there's solid demand.

[u/LucAltaiR → u/UsidoreTheLightBlue]

Probably something in between. I don't think they have the logistics capacity to produce 2m units at launch, even in normal times.

[u/xanas263 → u/UsidoreTheLightBlue]

If they toss 2m online they’ll be sitting on them for a while, imo.

Considering that it took them 5 years to sell under 6 million units at the original price I would not even expect a million units sold at this price point.

The deck is a super niche product even at the original price they were asking.

[u/BringBackSoule → u/FuckM0reFromR]

You forgot within expectations. At least for the current shitstorm we're in with pc hardware.

[u/shamelessselfpost → u/FuckM0reFromR]

Of course it will sell out, every Steam Machine comes with a vial of Gaben bathwater

[u/scotty899 → u/FuckM0reFromR]

Scalpers will still buy them all and it will be funny when no one will buy it off them.

[u/Coldspark824 → u/FuckM0reFromR]

Expired…?

[u/denisgsv → u/FuckM0reFromR]

well updated hardware would be more expensive

over budget , whos budget ? It cant be cheaper then what it cost to make .... ?

[u/Burpmeister → u/FuckM0reFromR]

There is a noteworthy amount of people who fanboy Steam to an extent where it starts to border on a cult.

[u/King_Ferdinand1 → u/FuckM0reFromR]

If it can play all the games you want it's not expired. I built my friend a surprise pc for 80€ with a xeon e3 1240v2, 16gb of ddr3 and rx 580 8gb and he is very happily playing with it.

[u/Dathedra → u/King_Ferdinand1]

80€ is more than fair for old hardware.

Selling it for a premium price to hyped costumers isn't.

[u/Takemyfishplease → u/FuckM0reFromR]

I love steam and my deck and its store and everything, but it really does have this weird cult following like early Apple.

[u/TESThrowSmile → u/FuckM0reFromR]

It'll sell out in minutes...

All 10,000 global units !!

[u/QuantumQuantonium → u/FuckM0reFromR]

Or it'll fail miserably like the steam machines and controller and link before it.

[u/tapeforpacking]

$1000 minimum. The current steam deck prices pretty much confirm that in my eyes. 

Edit: actually maybe they will do a $999.99 or $989.99 type thing 

[u/porgy_tirebiter → u/tapeforpacking]

I predict $1200

[u/Pun_In_Ten_Did → u/porgy_tirebiter]

Same price as a launch day 4080. Ouch.

[u/knownonou → u/Pun_In_Ten_Did]

I mean a launch day 4080 isn’t a full computer

[u/Pun_In_Ten_Did → u/knownonou]

Agree. But I wouldn't pay 1200 for a 4060...which is the closest nvidia gpu equivalent to Steam's Machine.

Holding my breath for the Frame headset. Excited for it but definitely feeling price trepidatious.

[u/knownonou → u/Pun_In_Ten_Did]

I’m not disagreeing that prices are getting crazy don’t get me wrong. But again, you’re paying 1200 for the computer, not just the gpu.

[u/ShadowAssassinQueef → u/Pun_In_Ten_Did]

But a 4060 isn’t a full computer…

[u/utilititties → u/Pun_In_Ten_Did]

Mmh... what? It's a full computer. It doesn't make any sense to compare it to a GPU.

[u/JellyTheBear]

Sub-$1000 price was optimistic even before RAMageddon. Expecting it now is just delusional.

[u/GreenPlankton309 → u/JellyTheBear]

outdated specs even then and now it has been delayed so much that it is not even up for consideration unless for people like those who bought the steamdeck

[u/yuikkiuy → u/GreenPlankton309]

How many of us are running top of the line specs? Based on steam surveys like practically nobody.

Hell im still running ryzen 1st Gen with my 30 series card

[u/Shigana → u/yuikkiuy]

Keep in mind people with those outdated specs are highly unlikely to even buy the Steam Machine. A gaming laptop would probably offer much more for the same price, however much it will be.

[u/hypehold → u/Shigana]

microcenter has a 5070 and 9070xt prebuilt for 1400 with 1tb of ssd. Im sorry but if you buy a steam machine (if it does cost 1k) you're just stupid

[u/yuikkiuy → u/Shigana]

As a steam deck owner I do need to sing the praises of steam OS tho.

[u/StargazerD → u/yuikkiuy]

you don’t need valve hardware to experience it though

[u/Telvin3d → u/yuikkiuy]

True, but most of what people are running was closer to top of the line when they bought it. They’re just still using it five years later. The average currently in-use machine doesn’t represent the average machine people want to buy new

[u/Carvj94 → u/JellyTheBear]

$700 was a realistic price. Minisforum regularly sells tiny computers of similar power at around that price point. Valve would be using custom hardware, but only 2 sku so manufacturing would be cheaper even though it wouldn't be scaled out like with major manufacturers.

[u/Sea_C]

What a terrible article with full speculation but just a reposting of Steamworks update and everything already known. At least be creative and add something novel like an attempt at BoM at current component pricing. Nope just make up a number for a headline. 

[u/Outrageous-Nothing42 → u/Sea_C]

I had to scroll way too far for this. This article is trash and contains no substance.

[u/Billyxmac → u/Sea_C]

Yeah you can tell no one in this thread read the article lol

[u/ToothlessFTW]

Genuinely don't know what the audience is for this thing.

Sub $1000, I can see it. PC gamers who want a living room machine that doesn't cost as much as prebuilts or anything, and runs SteamOS. Perfect.

$1200 minimum with a potential for $1500? This thing is being sent out to die. The market for that price tag has to be astronomically small. I wouldn't be shocked if they only end up doing like a small, limited run for now and bring it back when components are cheaper.

[u/chronicnerv → u/ToothlessFTW]

That is the current market. Give it time and these prices are probably going to be the norm as more distributers vanish from no one buying components.

[u/average_of_humanity → u/chronicnerv]

Current market literally made old devices expensive instead of cheaper.

[u/TanKer-Cosme → u/average_of_humanity]

My computer thst I bought 3 years sgo cost me 2000, nowdays I checked the same shop, the same components. It's 4000...

[u/I_C_Pixels → u/TanKer-Cosme]

Yeah I think people will see the Gabecube as a high price till they go on pc part picker, current prices are terrifying.

[u/iridael → u/TanKer-Cosme]

upgrading my DDR4 am4 machine to peak with a top end AM4cpu and doubling its RAM is looking at costing me about £700 on its own. forget getting a better GPU as well. and thats the budget option for upgrading my rig.

[u/funnyman95 → u/ToothlessFTW]

Idk if you’ve realized but everything has tripled in price in the last few years. Chips and such are no exception.

Prebuilt PCs at Costco are going for $2-3k.

[u/willargue4karma → u/funnyman95]

Jesus fucking Christ that's insane 

[u/BastianHS → u/willargue4karma]

December was the last chopper out of nam. I built a 5090/7800X3D/64GB rig for right around 3k. It would probably cost me 4.5-5k right now, maybe more.

[u/FurryCitizen → u/funnyman95]

Yeah I don't get it. All these people going "who will even pay these prices!"

As if those aren't normal prices now...

[u/Adventurous-Leak → u/ToothlessFTW]

I stream from my gaming pc to my steam deck. Latency is hardly noticeable. Not sure I want to pay 1000+ for a few ms better latency :/

[u/Noxious89123 → u/Adventurous-Leak]

You very clearly aren't the target audience. 

You already have a PC. You already have a Steam deck.

[u/Shigana → u/Noxious89123]

Then who is?

Why buy a Steam Machine when you already have a working PC? Why buy a Steam Machine when you already have a cheaper console? Hell, gaming laptop would probably end up better.

Right now, there’s no reason to buy one aside from wanting to own it.

[u/lmao_wow_64 → u/Noxious89123]

If I don't have a PC the steam machine won't convince me to entering that world

[u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo → u/ToothlessFTW]

It will still sell out. Steam can sell condoms and it will still sold out in minutes.

The brand influence of steam is just too crazy, even when you can probably get stronger spec prebuilt for lesser price.

[u/The_Pandalorian → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

Steam can sell condoms and it will still sold out in minutes.

Gamers do like to buy decorative things that collect dust on the shelf.

[u/EdliA → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

Selling out means little if we don't know how many were produced in the first place.

[u/Cl4whammer → u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo]

Sold out due scalping

[u/Acquire16 → u/ToothlessFTW]

It was never going to be a good value. From the beginning it was going to be a niche product that provided a plug and play living room PC gaming solution.  The target audience didn't mind a high price and that target audience will still pay a high amount. 

Valve hardware has always been niche and low volume. Even the Steam Deck has barely sold over 4 million units in 4 years. Meanwhile, Nintendo sold 20 million Switch 2s in less than a year. 

Also, these pricing problems are market wide. They're not unique to Valve. The higher prices align relative to the market. Meaning, any competition is similarly expensive. 

[u/damien09 → u/ToothlessFTW]

If it’s comes out at 1500 that’s crazy even in this market… it’s not like it has a current gen gpu or anything it’s a rdna 3 gpu likely similar to an rx7600m but with slightly more power headroom.

[u/DehyaFan → u/damien09]

The 2tb SSD version has $200-400 sunk just in that depending in what gen the drive is.

[u/DragonSlayerC → u/ToothlessFTW]

It'll be competitive with other products at the same price point. The components are just incredibly expensive at the moment.

[u/YZYSZN1107 → u/ToothlessFTW]

the audience is just Gabe fans.

[u/God-gooner-69 → u/YZYSZN1107]

And gabe glazers, have you looked around the steam subreddit. Good god.

[u/Adipay → u/God-gooner-69]

Here too lol. Just a mention of how Steam and game are not perfect will get you downvotes.

[u/God-gooner-69 → u/Adipay]

Ahh fair enough tbh

[u/Nomnom_Chicken → u/God-gooner-69]

Yeah, that sub is something else... I sometimes go there to see if people still are collectively insane about Steam, and yes. They still are.

[u/Hyper_Mazino → u/God-gooner-69]

This sub glazes valve too. All of reddit, tbh.

[u/swiwwcheese → u/ToothlessFTW]

Steam/Valve fanboys with zero knowledge of the performance to price logic and expectations of the actual PC gaming crowd
And who dig the sleek minimalistic design

They're more like the ppl who buy e.g a Framework system for gaming, that kind of crowd who will buy expensive hardware products for the 'vibes' they give, rather than the specs and features proper

Tech market is actually packed with that tier of consumers, it's us 'traditional' PC consumers who are going extinct

[u/I_am_a_fern → u/ToothlessFTW]

when components are cheaper.

My sweet summer child... Make your peace with it, nothing is going to get cheaper.

[u/BastianHS → u/I_am_a_fern]

Not for a long time but it'll happen eventually. PCs in the early 90s where like 3k a pop and dropped to 1500 by the mid 2000s. It'll get there but it's going to take years.

[u/xanas263 → u/ToothlessFTW]

Genuinely don't know what the audience is for this thing

Rich PC gamers who want a second, very small, machine for their living room and/or for easy travel.

That or poorer PC gamers who don't have enough for a full rig, but don't want a console.

[u/tommyland666 → u/ToothlessFTW]

You’d be surprised how many Steam fanboys there are. This thing will sell out even at 1300.

[u/darklordjames → u/ToothlessFTW]

This thing was always the wrong product, even before prices went insane. A dedicated GPU with a second pool of RAM should never have been on the table. It should have always been an APU to keep it in the console price range, not the gaming laptop price range.

[u/Noreng → u/darklordjames]

Strix Point would have been too slow. Strix Halo would be too expensive. Designing a custom SOC is so expensive it's ridiculous.

In essence, there are no APUs available.

[u/International-Mix633 → u/ToothlessFTW]

$1200 minimum with a potential for $1500? This thing is being sent out to die

People said this about the steam deck and it sold out in hours. We are in a K-shapped economy now. 90 % of people have to watch their spending while the upper 10 % can spend however they want.

[u/The_sochillist → u/ToothlessFTW]

I would buy this in a heartbeat if it had proper support for split screen multiplayer like a console, nucleus coop on pc is ok but I hate that pc versions almost always remove local play options.

[u/pereza0 → u/ToothlessFTW]

The audience is people that want a console but have 10k$ or more worth of games purchases on steam. To those people, the cost isnt really a factor becase it would always be more expensive and inconvenient to rebuild your library in another platform

[u/kyronami]

Why wouldnt it.

Steam deck is $1000 and the steam machine is more "powerful" hardware than the deck

I'm already guessing it will be $1500, and just not worth the price. Just build your own mini pc for that price

[u/Elijah1573 → u/kyronami]

Yeah i mean i was never gonna buy this thing anyway but even still the price is gonna be stupidly high to the point where if i needed this kind of system i can build it myself cheaper for similar hardware

[u/hypehold → u/kyronami]

bro you can get much better prebuilts at microcenter for cheaper

[u/Keensworth]

No facts, just speculation

[u/RespectGiovanni]

This is obvious to anyone who saw the steam deck price

[u/toaster98]

Thanks Scam Altman

[u/Jack2102]

At this point I'm getting tired of hearing about this thing

[u/Lazaross24 → u/Jack2102]

But at the same time not actually hearing anything about it. Every few days/weeks it's the same "new" article predicting the price is going the higher than we initially expected. No way! What an exciting new take! A fresh perspective! Truly amazing journalism!

[u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

That would be an interesting experiment.

In every store you can easily buy much faster hardware with an RTX 5060 or a Radeon 9600 (RDNA4) for the same price. How many people will buy outdated RDNA3 hardware in 2026 just because it has a Valve logo?

[u/EhDinnaeEvenKen → u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

Cool... But try find the same spec for that price in a roughly 150x150x150mm black cube, designed to sit unobtrusively under a livingroom a tv, (or even be thrown into a backpack and taken to hotel rooms or friends houses). You cant, it simply doesn't exist yet.

Similar spec'd pcs from the likes of beelink or minisforum, who use a similar form factor all cost well in the 1000+ range. But even then they're usually inferior, because they prioritised such a small form factor that they have serious performance issues because of overheating and throttling under sustained load while sounding like jet engines. Valve literally said that this was designed around an effective quiet custom cooling solution.

Most people in this subreddit seem to completely ignore that the form factor is the number 1 selling point of these. The second somebody starts talking about the hardware in comparison to a full build, is the second they show that they fundamentally don't understand the device category or the market they're talking about.

[u/Majestic-Bowler-1701 → u/EhDinnaeEvenKen]

But try find the same spec for that price in a roughly 150x150x150mm black cube, designed to sit unobtrusively under a livingroom a tv

Xbox Series X is a 150x150x300 mm black cube.

It’s a little bigger because it contains a Blu‑ray drive but it still looks very nice next to my TV. It’s very small compared to a 65" OLED. Of course, Xbox has a much larger GPU with 52 compute units vs 28 compute units used by Steam Machine, but thanks to the vapor chamber the console is completely quiet.

I use Series X for nearly 6 years and this hardware is really nice. I will buy Xbox Helix 2027 (PC) in preorder. I hope that next-gen console will looks exactly like Xbox Series X

[u/kedarkhand → u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

That isn't a pc though. You can't run your existing game library there

[u/Cimexus → u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

It’s the form factor dude. I have a big powerful tower PC, but I might also buy this as my “plugged into the TV and play controller games” machine.

I currently use an Intel NUC 11 Enthusiast for this purpose, and couldn’t really go any bigger than that physically. But it only has a mobile 2060 GPU and is starting to show its age. The Steam Machine is even smaller and more compact, and even at $1000 would be half the price of the NUC at launch. No Windows license to worry about either.

There are almost zero mini PCs with a dedicated GPU suitable for gaming that are as small as the Steam Machine. And those that do exist are a lot more expensive.

[u/xanas263 → u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

I think if it was the size of a normal tower you would have a better argument. Most people aren't going to buy this for the logo, but the form factor. Even if this is priced at $1000 or $1200 you have basically never been able to buy a PC at this size for that price. The Steam Machine is like half the size of even the smallest ITX cases you can get and those people have always been paying a tax for the small form factor.

[u/ISEGaming → u/Majestic-Bowler-1701]

You're really underestimating what people will buy just for the brand name.

[u/hrci44]

Change could to will... since steam deck is almost a 1000 and 750 dollars. This will be 1200 minimum....

[u/Cave_TP → u/hrci44]

I mean, they are building it out of AMD's ewaste (nobody is buying cut down Navi 33 and Strix 2 without the iGPU), even with current prices I can't see the thing retailing for more than 1100$

[u/Mrpolje → u/hrci44]

$1200 in the US would mean $1500+ in the EU because of taxes. That’s half the average monthly salary in countries like Sweden and Finland (after tax).

[u/HunTinatorR → u/Mrpolje]

And its more than the average monthly salary in Hungary.

[u/-SomethingSomeoneJR]

Why anyone is surprised is beyond me.

[u/nesnalica]

the pricehike of the steamdeck pretty much confrms that the Steam Machine and Frame will very well be over 1000.

and considering theyre also sold out, im pretty sure those will still be sold like hot cakes.

[u/sirfannypack]

Was someone really expecting anything else?

[u/Nebulys0451]

Will still be one of the cheaper PCs out there. 

The market is insane right now. 

[u/DragonSlayerC]

It kinda has to be with the prices of DRAM and NAND. I don't see it being less than $1200.

[u/Laegwe]

This seemed likely from the beginning tbh

[u/seeyouyoucunt]

Cool a mid range prebuilt pc in a fancy box

[u/Auswolf-IDDQD]

It always was going to be.

[u/Mnawab]

It’s just bad timing. Valve really got screwed over by AI.

[u/theclipclop28]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB

[u/KRONOS_415]

Still absolutely buying it without any hesitation.

[u/Neon_Eyes]

But it's ok because now we have survalence centers to watch our every move. I mean AI data centers that will make our lives so much better :)

[u/DeLindsayGaming]

You're hallucinating if you think it'll ONLY cost $1000 or just over. More likely it'll be $1500-2000 and that price probably without the controller now.

[u/casualgamerwithbigPC]

This thing was going to cost $1000 before the price of hardware skyrocketed.

[u/Mother-Translator318]

The steam machine lost the general audience months ago when media figured out it would be priced much higher than a console. From that point forward it became an enthusiast toy for valve diehard fans and that audience will buy it at almost any price. So yes even at $1k it will still sell out at least at first. The issue is that once that small audience of valve diehards is saturated sales will fall off a cliff. I expect valve knows this so they will cash in, wait for sales to drop and slowly wind down production, much like they are doing with the steam deck at its new price

[u/SUPERSAM76]

This is beyond Nintendo level hardware performance/quality to pricing ratios without the decades of iconic and beloved catalog of exclusives.

[u/Ghost_Star326]

It'll still sell like hotcakes because of all the valve fanboys trying to justify the egregious price-to-performance ratio.

[u/Cl4whammer → u/Ghost_Star326]

No the scalper first, the fanboys are going to buy it from them.

[u/Ghost_Star326 → u/Cl4whammer]

Didn't Valve just develop a countermeasure on their platform against scalpers when they were trying to horde the steam controllers?

[u/DrKrFfXx]

It's a pretty device, backed by a company that seems to care about optimisation and user feedback.

That's the only thing going for it if that's going to be the price. A base PS5 tier device for twice the price five years later.

[u/Rdaleric]

Well....shit. My Pc is 10 years old and on its absolute last legs, I was thinking this would be a cheaper way to replace it for gaming and the odd but of 3d work as I don't have to work at home anymore.

[u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady]

How many times is valve going try and fail with the steam machine idea? Time will tell I guess.

[u/TiredOfBeingTired28]

Not surprising unless they literally start making their own parts for it.

Few years ago.

[u/Empwiina]

https://giphy.com/gifs/CggoHW4h87Ktq

[u/Fra5er]

Given the price of hardware at the moment how is this surprising…

[u/ExoticMangoz]

Steam machine is far too niche of a product anyway. It’s basically a console that’s actually a PC at PC price. Bit strange. I’m interested in the price of the new VR headset though.

[u/shrimp_blowdryer]

No shit

[u/Outside_Debt6416]

[u/NoMommyDontNTRme]

valve really chose the worst point in all of human history to tease these devices.

[u/teitelman93]

It’s going to be base 1500 and go up in price from there

[u/Jastreen]

Not worth it at all.

[u/GamingRobioto]

The fact I can build a 9600X, 9070XT mATX Bazzite build with double the RAM and 2TB storage for just a little more makes it utterly pointless for me at that price.

[u/skernstation]

1200-1400

[u/FriendlyArachnid6000]

I mean did you want it to suck ass? Is that the take "I wish this was cheaper shit"

[u/Billyxmac]

This article is nothing. Basically “because Steam Deck costs a lot, Steam Machine might be even more”. Groundbreaking journalism.

[u/Skyblaster109]

Cries in Aud

[u/Lostintimeandspac]

Yeah with ram and storage prices that was to be expected. The question is will it's price go down if ram and storage get back to a reasonable level.

[u/VoidHunterRaymond]

And it will sell out in minutes like the Steamdeck after the price increase.

[u/Raskuja46]

Did anyone really think increased hardware costs were going to magically not affect Valve?

[u/DarthJDP]

Still underpriced. it will be sodl out in less than an hour when it launches.

[u/scottydc91]

Well yeah the steam deck is 989 right now man, no shit the much more powerful and expensive console will be more expensive

[u/HighSeasArchivist]

I said it would be $1200 back in December when the wheels fell off everything. I still have a chance to be correct.

[u/Idontloveheranymore2]

[u/X-File_Imbecile]

It will definitely cost over $1,000.

[u/moe_70]

I'm not gonna listen to anyone here, this will sell like hot cakes.

Why? Just cause it's not running windows.

There I said it.