Steam Machine 2026 on sale (pre-order)


Idiotic price it will fail
Yes. But I think it will still sell. It was rumored the original price was going to be 839, still not cheap, but due to increased RAM prices they raised the price.
Valve mentioned they won't sell at a loss, like with an Xbox which actually is sold with a big loss (caused by the same high RAM prices, Microsoft is now even looking into dropping Xbox).
The big difference is in size and integration with your TV. You can build a faster PC with this money, or buy a PS5 Pro, but it won't be the same as this Steam Machine. Still expensive though.
And, probably most people can't buy one if they want to. And, it's more of a PC, just in case you want to have a PC and gaming-console (including RAM upgrades, if prices drop again).
 
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Everything is at an idiotic price now - such is the world we live in.
8TB SSD (yes, SSD/SATA not NVME): last year 600euro, now 2400euro.
4TB version, almost 1400euro:
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people aren't gonna buy and companies are gonna stop making games.

now the 16g sd in my everdrive gba just started failing. dammit. this is real.
 
At least my Steamgames are allready running fine on my GPD Win Mini, and some of them even on the AYN Thor, i would be more interested in an Clamshell Steamdeck 2 which is smaller and lighter..
 
Well, maybe the Pyra/Pandora will now be relatively cheap and will get more users.

I think the Steam Machine will be sold out really quick as they didn't produce many. And a new Steam Deck won't be around soon I think. They only want to introduce one if it makes a significant difference. I would like a clamshell version, though I think it would be too bulky.

Also, the new Steam VR glasses probably work with the Steam Machine to, so that would be nice.
 
how on earth is QVO SATA twice as expensive as WD Black 8TB 2280 NVME???
I think it's because people (or companies) that needs 8TB SSD's don't have many options compared to higher-end systems which use NVME. Maybe they also stopped producing these drives.
Also, the sky is the limit in pricing stuff ridiculously high.
 
Months ago I was like "if it's more than 600€ it will fail" ... and the argument "it's the medium hardware of steam users" didn't helped in a better direction ...

At the time, the only thing that could have made "that new pc" worth something was the price. (That was also one of the reasons why the Steam Deck sold so much, but that was also a portable device, not a desktop PC)

Now that I have seen some reviews I'm actually pretty mixed ...
it's not cheap and not a very powerful machine, but it is already way better than my 10 years old PC ... (my graphic card has 2 GB dedicated RAM versus 8 of the Steam Machine ...)
it's also able to run a lot of games that require Win 10+ , that I can't run with Win 8.1 ...
it uses the Steam DB to have the games already configured correctly ... this is a really cool thing ... I use a lot of time to find the best compilation of settings for every game in my machine, and the more recent are the more I have to play with the settings ...

In all the reviews I have seen they gave compliments for the form factor of the hardware ... the fan is huge but with low noise, the antennas are placed in good spots, dedicated connection for the Steam controller, etc ...

I never got the Steam Deck just because I already have a Pandora and a Pyra as portable devices, and I have always difficulty to dedicate the time to those, but I have seen it and I know how well made it is, and if the same effort was put in the Steam Machine, well ... I start to think it could possibly become my next PC ... (at least for gaming)
 
I think the system is looking cute and it's powerful enough for most games.

If I would have to chose a single computer to own, I probably wouldn't get the Steam Machine.
But if I want a small PC for gaming, it's a good choice, especially easy to hide in the living room.

As a main PC, if you really want, it probably can run Win10 as virtual machine. It does run it natively to, but you probably shouldn't. Just in case you really need to run some Windows applications.
It can take a bigger NVME drive, 2 bigger sticks of RAM and an external drive. So, you can still upgrade in the future when stuff like RAM is much cheaper.

If you really are in need for a better gaming PC a used system might have better value for your money. But it would lack the integration with the Steam ecosystem and dedicated gaming enhancements.
 
Just to be precise, I wouldn't miss Win 10, I just want to be able to play Win 10 games, and the Steam Machine is already able to do that, even without that OS.
The only reason why my main PC has Windows is because it's easier to run games on it, as it's the system them are made for.

I have seen an interesting thing in many benchmark of the Steam Machine anyway ... seems like most of the games that have native linux port result a little slower compared to their Windows counterparts running with Proton ...
how is this ?!
I suppose either the Linux code is not well optimized, or Proton libraries are powered by magic !
 
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