{"id":84835,"date":"2026-06-22T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84835"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:36:38","slug":"the-internet-has-some-thoughts-on-the-steam-machines-1000-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84835","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Has Some Thoughts On The Steam Machine\u2019s $1,000+ Price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve has officially announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-price-and-release-date-officially-confirmed-by-valve\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-price-and-release-date-officially-confirmed-by-valve\/\">Steam Machine&#8217;s price<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re looking to get one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-is-not-a-console-valve-says\/?_thumbnail_id=1799073\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/steam-machine-is-not-a-console-valve-says\/?_thumbnail_id=1799073\">not-consoles<\/a> when they launch on June 30, you&#8217;re going to have to spend over $1,000 at minimum. As you can probably guess, eager players on the internet were not exactly thrilled by that news, and they let their voices be heard on social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some questioned if the Steam Machine should even be released at all at this point, pointing to the massive price tag that was required as AI puts a strain on the hardware supply chain. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/MischiefsYT\/status\/2069109998882345354  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And with the Steam Machine serving as a type of PC more than a traditional console, others questioned why someone would pay such a high price when building a custom PC would be cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/kishswim\/status\/2069110413782855948  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTuber SpawnWave was perhaps even more blunt with his assessment, believing the system is so expensive may effectively have no audience. <\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpawnWaveMedia\/status\/2069126457108910157  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Twitter user pointed to the trend we&#8217;ve seen with consoles in years past, with more accessible systems often performing better commercially than the more-expensive alternatives. The Sega Nomad, for those too young to remember, literally played Sega<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has officially announced the Steam Machine&#8217;s price, and if you&#8217;re looking to get one of the not-consoles when they launch on June 30, you&#8217;re going to have to spend over $1,000 at minimum. As you can probably guess, eager players on the internet were not exactly thrilled by that news, and they let their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":84837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84835","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\/84835"}],"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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84838,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84835\/revisions\/84838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}