Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

Regardless, the volatility in RAM and storage costs these days makes it hard to know exactly where the Steam Machine’s total costs and asking price will end up by the time we hit the early 2026 launch window. Griffais gestured toward this to Skill Up, noting that “right now is just a hard time to have a really good idea of what the price is going to be because there’s a lot of different things… a lot of external things.”

If the Steam Machine won’t cost significantly…