“not console pricing, but entry level pc pricing”.
Seems to be highly integrated and there are already conflicting statements in terms of the upgradeability, Gamers Nexus mentions that they’ll ship with two sticks of SO-DIMM memory modules. In another video about the device they said that the memory will be soldered and won’t be upgradeable.
This is a huge announcement! My wife and I love our Steam Deck and I’ve been waiting for a new Steam Machine. And hot darn it they made it look so good! I want one! If it’s more powerful than my current setup and if it is at all upgradeable… I may not be able to stop myself.
That’s highly unlikely. As it is a very small form factor of 160 mm^3 - from what I’ve seen up so far you won’t be able to fit an SSD drive into it, there is just enough space for an nVME.
It’s essentially a big heatsink and an 120 mm fan that consumes the space within that enclosure. And I bet the CPU as well as the GPU are directly soldered onto the mainboard.
Pricing is still TBA. As it will be released in early 2026, maybe they will start pre-orders before christmas ?
Biggest thing no one is talking about is that the VR headset runs on arm hardware. So there is a official proton layer for ARM now.Thats massive. Interested to see where that leads us. It would be great if Valve can put resources into the Arch Linux Arm project
At least for those ARM SoCs that are utilizing the Adreno 750 GPU or one of its variants. As that’s the GPU the Qualcom Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is equipped with. I’m not aware of any SBC that uses the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. But there as it’s already in use on various mobiles / tablets, according to this list, there will be most certainly some guys tinkering with it, once it’s available to the public.
According to him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJI3qTb2ze8, after some guesswork on the parts, it should be in the 500-600$ range. Valve can’t sell it for too cheap, since it’s not a console and anyone can use it for anything, so they can’t recoup the discount with game sales like console makers.
For me the pc is not that interesting, unless it’s a really good deal. Definitely stronger than my current mini pc.
I think the controller is going to be a great peripheral. The headset is interesting too, not sure what I would do with, I’m not seeing myself sitting in a vr headset for a lot time.
Oh boy, I guess that the Steam machine will have a rough start. Due to the recent price developments in the market.
In short, I’ve build a AM4 based system last year which won’t be too far off from the specifications of the upcoming Steam Machine.
I do have Ryzen 5 5600 ( AM4 ) system with a Radeon RX 6600 equipped with a 1TB nVME & 32 GB of DDR4-3600 RAM. And I’ve just looked up the current purchase price for the very same system components that I’ve bought last year. Even for that AM4 platform using DDR4-3600 memory modules instead of the latest hardware generation, that system would be 35% more expensive currently.
The nVME price doubled, the DDR4-3600 memory modules are 4x more expensive at this point in time. The cheapest RX 6600 that is still available would be ~6% more expensive than the one which I’ve purchased last year and even that 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU that I’ve got went up in price by ~7%.
On paper, they announced the Steam Machine with less internal storage as well half the RAM capacity. , But with the newer Zen4 as well as RDNA3 architecture instead of the Zen3 and RDNA2 card that I’ve got.
I strongly doubt that valve could release the Steam Machine at a compelling price.
Anyway, I didn’t considered to purchase a Steam Machine as its specs won’t be a significant upgrade in my case. Sure, they haven’t released their pricing yet. But I guess it would be much more expensive than I initially anticipated.
I bet they have gotten their hardware for a dicounted price, which should allow at least a competitive pricing for the Steam Machine. Still, the timing for the launch will be rough.
