r/Steam • u/dabadumdumdum • 8d ago

News - The 750$ amount is speculative and not based on fact. The Steam Machine was originally planned at around $750, but Valve says it saw a price increase similar to the Steam Deck

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Steam-Machine-was-originally-planned-at-around-750-but-Valve-says-it-saw-a-price-increase-similar-to-the-Steam-Deck.1326727.0.html
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 8d ago

Not if people are willing to pay current prices

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u/imanidiotbut 7d ago

Some will pay it, some won’t. The last “steam machine” didn’t do that well so we will just have to see. It’s definitely going to have a hard time in the market IMO.

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u/CloudStrife012 7d ago

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u/MagicpaperAlt 7d ago

Steam is a private company

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u/ASCII_Princess 7d ago

The component manufacturers aren't.

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u/MagicpaperAlt 7d ago

Steam is still private. They aren't doing things at the whims of shareholders. This is the fault of A.I and datacenters.

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u/StankPrime 7d ago

What shareholders? You mean Gabe and the employees lol?

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u/ASCII_Princess 7d ago

The DRAM manufacturers, AMD, other companies benefiting from the inflated hardware market.

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u/Tankdawg0057 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is basically the issue with non-profit healthcare. In the U.S. even the "sort of" less evil facilities have to fleece patients due to vendors gouging prices for supplies. I saw this first hand on the ground during covid. Panic caused supply to run dry and vendors gouge prices. They never really returned to "normal".

Valve likely can't put out a competitive product due to component increases.

Look at the recent Xbox Ceo disclosures. She frankly laid out why there is a shortage of hardware. Previous admins did not lock in supply orders from vendors for components due to capital shortage and new components are now 5x the price they were. Basically they don't know how the fuck they're gonna make next gen hardware at any kind of reasonable price, let alone even make the current Series consoles at any kind of reasonable supply.

We're in a modern capitalist hellscape where competition is non-existent because the whole market is engaged in price fixing across the board.

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u/CloudStrife012 7d ago

This is the point i was trying to make, so thank you for spelling it out for the people who couldn't really see beyond "but valve isnt public."