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Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) (www.youtube.com)
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Announcing new Steam Hardware from Valve: Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame are coming in 2026. Just like Steam Deck, all three devices are optimized for Steam and designed for players to get even more out of their Steam library.

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I think all of these are nice, if priced correctly

Steam Frame needs to compete with quest, so prices over $800 are a really tough sell.
Steam Machine needs to compete with consoles, PS5 (non-pro) and Series S, so prices over ~$700 will become really tough.

Prices start becoming really good, if they manage to come it at ~$600 for Steam Frame and ~$500 for Steam Machine.

But with current hardware prices, Valve being valve and no-one can know if they want to make money on the hardware, or if they are willing to sell at cost, or if they are willing to subsidize, who knows where we will land.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    To your last point, back when the Steam Deck launched they described its price point at the time as "painful" but felt it was necessary. Turns out they made the right call and it was wildly successful, so hopefully they stay the course on "painful" pricing.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Also pretty much all modern consoles have been eye watering my expensive on launch save the switch. Even the switch 2 was very pricey.

    Early adopters will jump on at the higher price point and everyone else will get on board when the price falls.

    Honestly the thing I REALLY care about here is the steam controller 2. I LOVED the original. Gimme gimme gimme

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Their goal with the first iteration of Steam Machines (RIP) was explicitly to provide an alternative to Windows and to reduce dependency on Microsoft. I'm pretty sure that's why they priced the deck so competitively, to make a dent in the market as a loss leader.

    To that end, I would expect them to be taking a large hit on these in order to get them into people's hands. It's not even about steam sales per se, it's about platform commoditisation.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I personally expect that they will want to cover hardware cost, while being willing to subsidize development cost with the steam store.
    So I think the low storage models will make a slight loss for valve in the beginning, while the higher storage models will get that back to even overall for valve.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Steam Frame I've seen reported will be like $1,800 aud, so just over 1k US probably.

    I'm buying it regardless as long as it doesn't launch to be shit

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    They've already said the Frame will be cheaper than the Index, which is $999

    I doubt it's going to be much cheaper, but that's the ceiling from Valve's statements

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