FUCK. SAM. ALTMAN.

I honestly wish they'd just release the controller sooner rather than later. I can somewhat understand delaying the Machine and Frame due to the supply shortages, but if the controller is ready then they should just put it out there.

There goes my hope that they had some rock solid contracts for many years of ram in place before prices were stupid.

But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).

Steam Machine's SSD (NVMe 2230 or 2280) and memory (DDR5 SODIMMs) are both accessible and upgradeable.

I wonder if they are going to end up deciding to sell a barebones SKU without storage/memory.

I just want my Steam Controller 😭

Well, maybe I bite the bullet with the Frame later on.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

I’m seeing prices get worse actively, not better.

Orders causing this have nearly two years of backlog.

This really doesn’t answer anything we didn’t already know.

I feel for the Valve engineers who put years into these products, only to have them hit a huge speed bump on the home stretch because of the ridiculous AI bubble.

So launch within first half of 2026, probably not early 2026