Valve Prices the Steam Machine At $1,049
4 92Valve's new Steam Machine will launch June 29 starting at $1,049 and go up from there depending on the configuration. Although it costs considerably more than the PS5 ($599.99) and Xbox Series X ($649.99), "the value proposition for the Steam Machine is that it can play your library of Steam games you may have accumulated over years (or even decades), rather than just PlayStation games, and it's also a full Linux PC that you can customize to your heart's content," reports The Verge. "Valve also says that it's selling the Steam Machine for the cost of its components alone instead of subsidizing the price." From the report: You can now register your interest to buy a Steam Machine as part of a reservation system. To offer a fair playing field for people who want to buy one, Valve will randomize everyone in the queue on Thursday at 1PM ET. After that, anyone who registers their interest will be added to the end of the waitlist. The first emails giving people the opportunity to buy will go out on June 29th.
Valve will sell four configurations of the Steam Machine:
- A 512GB model for $1,049
- A 512GB model with a bundled Steam Controller for $1,128
- A 2TB model for $1,349
- A 2TB model with a bundled Steam Controller for $1,428
4 comments
Re:Expesnive controller (Score: 5, Informative)
by Himmy32 ( 650060 ) on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:19PM (#66204482)
For comparison the Switch 2 joycons are $99.99 [nintendo.com] and the PS5 DualSense is $84.99 [playstation.com].
When you think about all that's jammed into them these days, Hall-effect/magnetic joysticks so there isn't drift issues, touchpads, a battery, gyros, haptic feedback, and the microcontroller. It's easier to understand why it costs a little more than a rectangle with a couple red buttons of yesteryear.
And why force people to buy a controller if they are going to just use mouse / keyboard or are happy buying a cheapo corded controller?
Re:Expesnive controller (Score: 5, Informative)
by GoJays ( 1793832 ) on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:19PM (#66204484)
Pick up an 8BitDo wireless controller [8bitdo.com] for $40 (CAD).
Ryzen/AMD 16/8GB (Score: 5, Interesting)
by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) * ) on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:21PM (#66204490)
Skipping the paywalled article I found these specs [thegamepost.com] and was underwhelmed.
Sure it looks fine for playing mid games but my guess was something unique, unified RAM or a clever bus or something. It seems like a decently tuned Ryzen build. I do like the lower TDP on the CPU which should be doing less work.
A nice form factor for those who don't build their own.
Hopefully this is their entre into the PC world and v2 will have more innovations.
What's most cool is the generation of teenagers who will have default Arch/KDE instead of default Windows.
An investment really (Score: 5, Funny)
by CEC-P ( 10248912 ) on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:32PM (#66204508)
I heard that every single one comes with a signed statement from Sam Altman stating that it is 100% guaranteed to go up in price by 2029 or your money back!