Valve announced its new game console last November, with the intention of launching it early 2026. However, The RAM and NAND price crisis disrupted those plans and caused the company to announce in February that it was delayed and that it had not yet decided on a price for the Steam Machine. Today, Valve has put an end to the mystery by announcing what it will cost and opening a somewhat complicated pre-order process for Steam Machines, which will begin shipping to buyers. starting June 30.
The price, which was the biggest unknown and what will largely decide its future, is not exactly cheap. In Spain part of €1,039 with 512GB storage and without remote control. With it, go up to €1,108. The model with higher capacity, with 2TBit is put in €1,359 without control and in €1,428 with the. For reference, a PS5which The Verge equates in performance with the Steam Machine, currently part of €599.99after several price increases since its launch in 2020. What is clear with these prices is that, the next PlayStation and Xbox will make the current expensive models of sony and Microsoft They look cheap.
Valve allows you to join several lists, one for each model, to qualify for a reservation until June 25 at 7:00 p.m.Spanish peninsular time. Then, the company will randomly order all those registered to decide the reservation order and buyers will know if they have obtained a place in the queue or go to the waiting list. The first emails to proceed with the purchase will arrive on June 29 and recipients will have 72 hours to purchase it.
Valve has established this system to avoid bot abuse and resellingand to manage what is expected to be limited availability of the Steam Machine due to the memory crisis.
Steam Machine Specifications
Beyond the different storage capacities, they will all have the same hardware. The Steam Machine uses a processor amd semi-custom 6 cores and 12 processing threads with architecture Zen 4 and even 4.8GHz; a GPU dedicated semi-custom with 28 computing unitsfrequency up 2.45GHzarchitecture RDNA 3 and 8GB GDDR6 VRAM, 16GB DDR5 RAM for system, 512GB or 2TB NVMe SSD and card slot microSD.
In terms of connectivity, it offers WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Gigabit Ethernet, DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0a port USB-Cfour ports USB-A and an integrated wireless adapter for the Steam Controller.
Valve assures that it will have performance comparable to that of a desktop PC and that, with FSRAMD’s upscaling technology, will be playable at resolution 4K at 60 images per second.