Steam Machine closer, claims Insider Gaming
Valve has not announced pricing for its new Steam hardware, but one figure may have slipped early. Yesterday an early review of the new Steam Controller listed the device at $99.99 . Valve has not confirmed the price.
Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw also reports that Valve is getting closer to confirming other 2026 hardware details. The company has reportedly been discussing Steam Machine pricing internally, including whether it would accept a short-term loss on hardware costs.
For those concerned about what things mean for the Steam Machine, I’m to understand that Valve is getting closer to confirming everything. They’ve been going back and forth internally on pricing and whether they would be willing to take a loss on the cost, at least in the short term. It’s unclear what decision has been made, but the internal belief is that an announcement on a release is getting closer.
— Mike Straw, Insider Gaming
Valve had delayed firm pricing and launch dates because of memory and storage shortages. Valve said in February that its goal to ship Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame in the first half of 2026 had not changed , but it still needed to lock down pricing and timing.
Source: Valve
The Steam Machine uses a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 processor with 6 cores and 12 threads, paired with an RDNA 3 GPU with 28 Compute Units. Valve lists 16GB of DDR5 system memory and 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM. The system is planned with 512GB and 2TB NVMe storage options. Needless to say, it’s not new hardware, and the sooner it ships, the better.
Source: Insider Gaming via NotebookCheck
