{"id":84821,"date":"2026-06-22T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84821"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:43:41","slug":"the-steam-machines-original-price-wouldve-given-valves-machine-a-much-better-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84821","title":{"rendered":"The Steam Machine\u2019s Original Price Would\u2019ve Given Valve\u2019s Machine A Much Better Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve&#8217;s Steam Machine finally has a price, and its far steeper than anyone was likely imagining. That goes for Valve, too, with the company indicating that its original target was significantly less, and would&#8217;ve made a lot more sense for the hardware on offer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-steam-machine-was-originally-meant-to-cost-about-750\">IGN <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/aftermath.site\/steam-machine-review-price\/\">Aftermath<\/a>, engineers from Valve indicated that the Steam Machine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-deck-gets-massive-price-hike\/\" id=\"1769194\">price increased similarly to that of the Steam Deck<\/a>, whose own price was increased by around 35% for the base model (and closer to 50% for the 1TB versions). Assuming Valve is talking about the lower figure of the two, some quick math suggests that the Steam Machine was likely originally priced at or around $750, a figure that was widely guessed at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that was in November 2025, when the now-apocalyptic RAM crisis was just starting. Since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glukhov.org\/hardware\/memory\/ram-price-increase\/\">memory prices have surged globally<\/a>. The United States of America has fared best, with an average 163% increase, while other regions, like Japan and the UK, have seen increases of 619% and 219% respectively, Regardless of where you live, building a PC has become prohibitively expensive, with few signs suggesting that is changing soon. And unfortunately for Valve, it got caught<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve&#8217;s Steam Machine finally has a price, and its far steeper than anyone was likely imagining. That goes for Valve, too, with the company indicating that its original target was significantly less, and would&#8217;ve made a lot more sense for the hardware on offer. Speaking to both IGN and Aftermath, engineers from Valve indicated that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":84823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84824,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84821\/revisions\/84824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}