Steam Machine finally launches as Valve reveals $1,049 starting price - Dexerto

10 hours ago by sanitation to c/pcmasterrace

Valve has officially revealed pricing and availability details for the Steam Machine, its new living room-focused gaming PC, with pre-orders opening ahead of a June 29 launch.

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tal 6 points 10 hours ago

I think that they should have deferred it two years for component prices to drop. I had a graphic showing inflation-adjusted console prices a while back. Aside from the Atari 2600, no console has had a price near that level and been successful.

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https://lemmy.today/...

The highest-priced successful console was the PS3, at $778 in 2024 dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3

At launch, the PS3 received a mixed reception, largely due to its high price—US$599 (equivalent to $960 in 2025) for the 60 GB model and $499 (equivalent to $800 in 2025) for the 20 GB model—as well as its complex system architecture and limited selection of launch titles. The hardware was also costly to produce, and Sony sold the console at a significant loss for several years. However, the PS3 was praised for its technological ambition and support for Blu-ray, which helped Sony establish the format as the dominant standard over HD DVD. Reception improved over time, aided by a library of critically acclaimed games, the Slim and Super Slim hardware revisions that reduced manufacturing costs, and multiple price reductions. These factors helped the console recover commercially.

But we'll see.

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warm 1 point 8 hours ago

I think sitting on it does nothing. They might as well release it and then drop the price when they can during its lifetime.

We dont know how much longer this AI bullshit is going to go on for or how it will crash at the end, if at all.

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tal 1 point 7 hours ago

I don't think that it will crash (well, okay, rather, it's not why I'm making the statement), but 2028 is when substantial new memory production will be coming online (well, okay, absent unforseen disruptions like a war with China or another COVID-19 or something).

I think sitting on it does nothing

The thing is that once they release it, they freeze the specs, if they want to have a consistent target. If they wait two years, they can bump the specs up as part of that.

Like, if they ship now, then they're really constrained to, in 2028, ship a two-year-old system.

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papalonian 1 point 2 hours ago

They can absolutely reasonably re-release a refreshed version in two years, like the Deck OLED. If supply lines allow for it, they can drop the price on the current models and offer systems with more/ faster memory and storage, better CPU/GPU etc.

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