Steam Machine May Be Delayed Due to RAM Storage Shortages and Price Hikes
A delay Valve’s PC/console hybrid Steam Machine appears to be amidst the ongoing RAM and storage problems that are still facing, according to reports from The TimesOnline. The company has not explicitly pushed the release of its console, but wording around Steam Machine’s launch window changed from “early 2026” to “first half of the year”. It planned to share pricing and launch dates from the device by this time, Valve has said, but as hardware prices soared it had to “revisit” those details because of its high price.
Valve said in a Thursday blog post that it was still not finalising pricing and launch date details for its next family of Steam devices the Steam Machine, the steam Frame VR headset and the next-gen Steam controller. The delay was attributed to the ongoing memory and storage shortages, as well as price hikes that led to this delay, the company said.
In its update, Valve said ‘We planned to be able to share specific pricing and launch dates when we announced these products in November. Nevertheless, the memory and storage shortages you’ve heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. Given the low price tag of these critical components, we have to revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame) as well as prices. ” , ‘I’m sure it is worth reading.
Steam Machine is a PC/console hybrid
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Steam Hardware May Be Delayed
Valve did not specifically say that the release of new Steam hardware had been delayed, but a slight change in wording for the launch window suggests devices may have been moved beyond the company’s initial launch plans. In November, when Valve announced the Steam Machine, the headset and the controller, all three new devices would be available in “early 2026”. But the company now says it plans to launch them in the ‘first half of the year’.
In the first half of this year we have not hoped to ship all three products. But we’re still trying to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, knowing how quickly the situation around both of those things could change. Valve said we will update you as soon as we can finalize those plans.’ The spokesman for the company, who is also in charge of , said ‘We are committed to keeping you updated with all our potential and most likely that we could do so at least once they have been available.
The update comes a day after AMD CEO Lisa Su said the device was on track to launch in “early 2026” when Valve announced it would be updating Steam Machine. This is based on an original AMD CPU and GPU used in the Steam Machine.
Steam Machine Pricing
The Steam Machine would cost the PC with a “same level of performance” price, Valve had said back in November.
If you build a PC from parts and then get to basically the same performance, that’s the price window we want at all,’ Valve programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais said at the time. Ideally, we’d be pretty competitive with that and have a good deal but are trying to refinance it as well as the way we speak; right now is just. really hard to know what price will be because there’s so many different things that are changing. , ” and.
Valve apparently has struggled to agree on a price tag for the Steam Machine. During recent months, cost of PC hardware has rocketed up with RAM and storage price hikes and shortages caused by AI demand. PS5 and Xbox Series S/X will compete with Steam Machine, which both start around the $500 price point in the US. The price of releasing a PC/console hybrid was significantly higher than that would be ‘high barrier to entry for potential customers.
In November the next-gen Steam controller was unveiled, as were the steam machine, a Steam Frame headset and the following-generation Steam Controller. In a statement, Valve’s new console is basically based on pc that runs on SteamOS but allows users to install an operating system of their choice – you could run Windows on it too (if so why would you?) This enables gaming at 4K, 60fps and up to 2TB of SSD storage with the capacity of .
In its latest update, Valve also confirmed that the Steam Machine’s SSD storage and memory will be upgradeable.
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