While the PC world has been watching prices for RAM, hard drives, and SSDs spike almost every week, Valve is still insisting that the Steam Machine is going to be released this summer. The problem is that Valve still has not told anyone what the thing is going to cost.
And that is where my concern kicks in.
There will be two versions of the Steam Machine, with the main difference being storage capacity. One model will include 512GB of storage, while the other will include 2TB. Outside of that, both versions share the same core hardware. That sounds great on paper, but with how expensive PC components have become, I still have my doubts about where Valve can realistically price this thing.
We have already seen this hit plenty of gaming hardware. Both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S prices have gone up, Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 has reached absurd pricing territory, and even Valve’s own Steam Deck OLED was not immune. The 512GB and 1TB Steam Deck OLED models are now sitting at $789 and $949, respectively, which is a massive jump from where they used to be.
Then, of course, there...
