2x8 GB RAM for 130 dollars? What the fuck? I knew theyve gotten more expensive recently but that stings.

It would cost me about a grand to make a pc that still not up to par with a ps5 where I live.

"better off just buying a PC".

It is a PC.

Most gamers don't want to get involved with PC building and just want something as convenient as a console to play their Steam games with good performance on a big screen. This can be priced quite above what a nerd would be able to build by himself with PCPartPicker.

I've seen estimates put the materials cost somewhere around the $425 - 500 USD range because of the specific, semi-custom hardware that they're using. It's also good to note that Valve will be able to get a better deal than any of us will because they can get bulk discounts and aren't buying each part at a market rate profit from retail vendors.

Some people seem to be of the mind that it will be somewhere around the $500 - 800 USD range if tariffs and the RAM situation don't screw with the price, and that it will probably price out the Xbox with Microsoft's 30% profit demand and be slightly more expensive than the PS5 while having comparable but not quite as much power.

YouTube channel Moore's law is dead priced it out at $425 including controller. For cost not price.

Smaller makes it more expensive. I hope it'll be under $1000, but I think I wouldn't be surprised if it were $1200.