It was like the first 25 seconds, haha. Hats off to them.

There's an interview with two Valve employees (maybe by Tested? I forget) where they were very clear that this is what RAM they were able to purchase. Otherwise they would simply have to produce far fewer Steam Machines overall. Not very good choices to have when releasing a product...

EDIT: Nope I guess it was n fact Steve from GN doing that interview, clips are in this video, and Valve corrected the statement to say that all machines are shipping with a single 16 GB RAM stick. Damn.

Edit: I was going off the previous interview and had not yet watched video in OP. There's been a correction to state all machines have one stick. My bad!

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The malicious part, imho, is that some machines have two sticks and some machines have one. Which will you get? Who knows! So you could pay the same amount as another customer, but get a worse machine.

Parts of the video make it sound like gn thinks valve is doing this maliciously

At no point in the video does Steve suggest it was malicious

They gotta make money.

Still too long for what could have been 2 paragraphs and a bar graph.