Steam Hardware

I wonder how much it would've cost if we didn't have a dumb mother fucker in charge and greedy rich bastards weren't hoarding all the supplies

Honestly surprised that they hit that price point with the way things are going. Still don't need one so I won't buy one, but about 1000 was what I was expecting

Wow, my prediction was pretty close. 7 months ago, I predicted that the Steam Machine prices would be $800-$900 for the 512GB model, and $1,000-$1,200 for the 2TB model.

That was in the middle of memory prices going vertical, and I still got down voted to hell by people claiming that they were expecting $600-$800 tops...

Honestly, with how bad memory has become even over the last 6 months, and the increased brutality to the market done by tariffs and the oil supply shock, I'm actually surprised they were able to hit $1,049 for the base model.

The hard truth: It's an acceptable price within a piss-poor market. The harder truth: It will sell out extremely fast and won't restock likely for months.

When Framework announced their new Framework 13 Pro line laptops last month, a lot of people balked at the price. $1,500 was the cheapest pre-built model, and DIY was basically the same price, unless you already had some components. The pricing for higher tier specs easily climbed to $2,000+

Still, they sold out of every model for the first 6-8 batches in a few days, and barely 2 months later, they are sold out to batch 15, with an expected delivery in October.

The K-shaped market is further becoming a reality. The people that have the money to drop on stuff like this, are happily dropping it. And the people who can't afford it are getting left in the dust.

The scumbag oligarchs have created the cyberpunk dystopia, and most of us aren't going to be living up in the shiny skyscrapers...

It's obviously not Valve's fault but man, that's expensive. Wasn't planning on getting one anyway, but it certainly makes me worried about what the Frame may cost.

Anyone here planning on getting one? I do wonder how much of a market there is for it at this price.

Steep as shit but still somehow cheaper than expected. We love AI bullshit destroying the entire hardware market hell yeah

I’m surprised people think $1,100 is expensive for a gaming PC, even outside the crazy memory market now.

Same with the $500 Commodore phone.

These are not the 2000s. The dollar has inflated. Technology is expensive. I think cheap junk has desensitized folks to that, but you pay an externalized cost for that stuff.

And of course salaries haven’t gone up so anyone can actually afford it, but… that’s a distinctly separate problem. They should have, as corporate revenue and profit per worker has certainly gone up.

410 CAD to go from 512GB to 2TB, and sadly that's pretty much just what a 2TB drive costs these days.

Fuck genAI.

Valve on the pricing of it:

Steam Machine, like our other hardware products, is made up of many components that we source from manufacturers around the world. The price at which we sell our hardware is a direct result of the cost of these components. We felt like we had a good understanding of how those costs might change over time when we first started sourcing them for Steam Machine back in 2023. That understanding was born from the many years of data we all have about the evolution of PC hardware prices – primarily, that it tends to get cheaper over time as new technology arrives.

Over the past year or so, that has changed quickly and significantly, most visibly for RAM and storage components. There are a variety of reasons, all of which are affecting hardware products everywhere. The overall effect is that our original goal for the price of Steam Machine is no longer viable. So the prices we're sharing today reflect the state of the world for manufacturing; or, more accurately, it reflects the price of the components as we've secured them over the past 6 months.

Price wasn't the only thing impacted by all of this: availability was as well. There were periods where we found we couldn't source some of our components at all, at any price. More than anything else, this has impacted the number of units we've been able to produce for launch.

Also:

If I don't get a Steam Machine right away, is there anything else I can do?

Thanks to the openness of the PC platform, there are lots of options for devices that will allow you to run games natively or streamed to your TV. There are many PC sites and communities out there that can help you with that. For our part, we are continuing to work toward enabling SteamOS to be used on more hardware than just ours. In fact, with the newly-released SteamOS 3.8, you can run the same code and operating system as Steam Machine on your own living-room PC using whatever PC parts you want:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227 . Right now, only AMD GPUs are supported, but we're working on expanding support for the future.

Steam Machine 512GB: $1,049 USD / 1,509 CAD / 1,039 EUR / 879 GBP / 1,609 AUD / 4,389 PLN

Bundle: Steam Machine 512GB + Steam Controller: $1,128 USD / 1,628 CAD / 1,108 EUR / 938 GBP / 1,728 AUD / 4,698 PLN

Steam Machine 2TB: $1,349 USD / 1,919 CAD / 1,359 EUR / 1,149 GBP / 2,109 AUD / 5,739 PLN

Bundle: Steam Machine 2TB + Steam Controller: $1,428 USD / 2,038 CAD / 1,428 EUR / 1,208 GBP / 2,228 AUD / 6,048 PLN

Both the Steam Machine 2TB and 2TB bundle options come with two additional faceplates: red fabric, and solid walnut.

reasonable given the current situation but not reasonable in general. I'll wait for prices to go down or my income to go up.

Not Valve fault, but at this point i just feel lucky to have brought the Deck Oled before of all this ram shitshow.

Eeesh too rich for me, but happy for anyone that gets one!

That's gonna be a no for me dawg.

I blame the AI bubble memory shortage for making this over $1,000 USD.

It's more expensive than we all would hope, but not unreasonably so given the economic situation.

That's surprisingly reasonable

Is surprising to me that nobody has attempted to Luigi a tech CEO yet, Everybody has 10 independent, different reasons to hate AI, lives have been destroyed and yet no Luigi for now.

RIP steam hardware, a revolution repressed by AI slop costs.

Now tell me what I care about....the Steam Frame!!