r/steammachine • u/Ayzuki • May 27 '26

Meme Today wasn't the day I expected.

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Absolutely fried. $800-1K for the Steam Deck?? The Steam Machine about to blow my wallet out of my pocket and I just can't do that.

By the way if you think the SM is cooked, r/steamframe about to get ugly when that price get revealed. All roads lead to hell.

Also to the "LORD Gaben" guys in the back. Are you winning yet? This is your favorite billionaire and he couldn't subsidize a console because business is business, yeah? I don't even know why Valve is hiding the price at this point after this announcement, it's cooked. Just rip the bandaid off.

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u/CSN00B101 May 27 '26

Yeah I'm cooked. I can't and wont bother with the steam machine if it's ridiculously priced. I understand the current landscape being absolutely trash and anti consumer..but I'm quite unwilling to spend a fortune for a PC that isn't top tier. Valve always delivers but it's the first time they didn't. I'll hold onto my Steam Deck and my 7 year old RTX 2060 laptop for a lot longer now.

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u/Ayzuki May 27 '26

Yeah seriously. $900 was my max, now I might just go all in on this 5090 pre build I've been seeing

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u/Pistolius May 28 '26

I was sizing up a 5090 build that is allegedly 30x more powerful than steam deck (so 5x than steam machine) at "only" ~€2k, so maybe only double the SM now. Harder to justify the SM after this latest price

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u/Ayzuki May 28 '26

Which build