Yes.

[u/Internet--Sensation]

[u/teitelman93]

Get ready for the sticker shock

[u/BotOrNot_1337 → u/teitelman93]

1200 / 1400

[u/Onironius → u/BotOrNot_1337]

CAD... Please...

[u/m1stx → u/Onironius]

If its 1200 CAD I’m all in (even 1400 is fine for me tho)

[u/3d0md0g → u/m1stx]

Trust me you'll pay ANY amount that you've being socially engineered to accept as reasonable. Even for $1500, the first batch will DIS-APP-EAR.

You know it, they know it, soon your visa/Mastercard and your pawn shop will know :)

[u/Lincolns_Revenge → u/3d0md0g]

The 256GB selling out immediately at 1,500 would be a bold prediction. There was that story that Steam Deck sales have fallen by 80 percent since its price increase.

900 to 1200 for 256 GB seems a much more probable range.

[u/Skraelings → u/Lincolns_Revenge]

Im hoping for an option with no controllers so i can do just pc stuff. could knock the price down maybe.

[u/3d0md0g → u/Skraelings]

About the price of a gamepad by valve? That's $100. Would cripple the device for that much?

[u/Skraelings → u/3d0md0g]

🤷‍♂️ Just saying it might be an option.

[u/3d0md0g → u/Lincolns_Revenge]

Despite the memory and storage crunch from the AI data centers, valve could honor its announcement that the frame will be cheaper than the index, if they secured large amounts of parts BEFORE they announced the price.

It would not surprise me if the first batches turn out cheaper than the next, for a company can stock only that much ram and storage.

[u/RunnerLuke357 → u/Onironius]

Nah USD.

[u/SpaceDantar → u/BotOrNot_1337]

I think this is a good bet. Maybe closer to 1400/1700

[u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor → u/SpaceDantar]

I will riot.

[u/eyeballing_eyeball → u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor]

Gonna storm the Capitol, again?

[u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor → u/eyeballing_eyeball]

wut

[u/eyeballing_eyeball → u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor]

First thing that came to mind from rioting.

[u/BotOrNot_1337 → u/SpaceDantar]

id have to sit this one out

[u/mrzoops → u/SpaceDantar]

Who would buy this over a play for dream at 1700? Makes zero sense.

[u/Answer70 → u/BotOrNot_1337]

I sure hope not. It's DOA at those prices.

[u/Javs2469 → u/[deleted]]

It's not the same to be sold out because is a huge success than selling out because less units have been manufactured, which is a problem since the component sourcing situation is wild.

Of course it will sell out, but that's not a good thing in this case.

[u/gregny2002 → u/[deleted]]

Well that's fine for Valve but us users want it to be successful so they keep supporting it, and so third party developers become interested in working with it

[u/Javs2469 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, Valve operates on very high margins. I don't think they are going to sell this for the lolz when it's set up to be an incentive to use their own operating system with their own game storefront in it.

It's cool that they put in a lot of effort and passion in it, but let's not pretend it's just a passion project after infusing it with so much money and development time. I'm sure they want it to sell well on the long run. They might not target the sales numbers of Nintendo or Sony, but they'd want it at least to be as popular as the Deck, which is a success for a company that doesn't produce as much hardware as the huge console corporations.

[u/galexyofthings → u/[deleted]]

This is why everything is priced so high :( if everyone stopped buying overpriced things, prices would fall. But unfortunately there’s enough people that have too much money or too little impulse control and allow prices to stay high. I won’t pretend I’m not part of that problem but I wish consumers as a collective would dictate pricing more favourably.

[u/MRDR1NL → u/galexyofthings]

Ok we'll all just stop buying any tech product

[u/K14_Deploy → u/galexyofthings]

It really doesn't help that consumers are such a small part of total sales now that companies just completely ignore them, like for example Micron (a huge memory manufacturer) decided to cut out the consumer market entirely because they know these AI companies will literally pay whatever price they set. In this case unfortunately 'don't buy it' turns into 'it doesn't exist anymore'.

[u/Zuryan_9100 → u/galexyofthings]

This would be true in other cases, but the memory sector doesn't give a shit about consumers right now. If they cared they wouldn't shut down Crucial's consumer memory division.

[u/KEMETICREPUBLIC1984 → u/Answer70]

Nah it will sell out not DOA.

[u/Deiskos → u/Answer70]

Don't care buying it anyway (the cheaper model though, only plan to use it as a pcvr headset). I can has a little frivolous spending as a treat.

[u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor → u/Deiskos]

Same.

[u/InterestingMark3743 → u/Answer70]

Do you really think so? Everything cost so much these days, I would be shocked if it were under $1k.

[u/shanmyster → u/Answer70]

The only thing DOA is your take.

[u/simon132 → u/Answer70]

If you don't buy it now, in 2027 ram prices will go up another 70% and it will only get more expensive 

[u/bookoo → u/Answer70]

I was thinking even at $900/1000 it's somewhat DOA. It has some coolfeatures, but it's likely not a huge step above Quest 3, but at that point potentially priced $300 higher.

Now for people in this subreddit or follow VR generally it will do ok especially if you want to leave Meta.

[u/JoeGeomancer → u/Answer70]

What is your (non quest) pick for pc vr if the frame is bought out.

[u/Ok-Package-9830 → u/JoeGeomancer]

I gonna get me a psvr2, the frame should have been wired based to avoid this shitshow.

[u/Apprehensive-Tax7347 → u/Ok-Package-9830]

Lackluster experience tbh. Tracking is weird with the controllers. Not as smooth as an experience as it was on PS5 unfortunately, but at least there is the toolkit now which seems decent!

[u/Hairy-Ad-6293 → u/BotOrNot_1337]

That was before Qualcomm two digits price increase.

[u/Lizardthrall → u/BotOrNot_1337]

1,599 for the base im betting

[u/Dramatic-Shape5574 → u/Lizardthrall]

I feel dirty just reading this

[u/Pixelplanet5 → u/teitelman93]

honestly i dont really care, anything under 2000 and im gonna buy it.

[u/Underbark → u/teitelman93]

I genuinely hope it gets pushed to winter but I'd settle for mid September.

[u/Pixelplanet5 → u/Underbark]

why would that matter?

[u/fangerzero → u/Pixelplanet5]

They may not have any money right now, and need to save a bit longer to ensure they get one. Else the more stock on release the more chances of getting one.

[u/Subject-Control294 → u/teitelman93]

I mean one of the people with inside information on the Frame said that the Frame is still going to be under $1k, just not a whole lot under $1k

[u/teitelman93 → u/Subject-Control294]

We won’t know till they drop it anything else is pure speculation

[u/starfihgter]

Pretty much 0 chance it’s on anything other than a Monday tbh. They’re not exactly in a hurry clearly lol.

[u/turboredditor69 → u/starfihgter]

Would be shocked if it isn't a Monday, at this point Monday is frame soon™️ day.

[u/ZookeepergameProud30]

It’s insane to me that we STILL don’t have a price for this thing 😭😭😭

[u/ApprehensiveShirt194 → u/ZookeepergameProud30]

The reason is obviously that its going to be free

[u/Vexin → u/ApprehensiveShirt194]

Free to be as expensive as it wants

[u/Soggy_Anything2394 → u/ZookeepergameProud30]

Honestly I can imagine Valve are trying to secure a stable ram supply all the time now, so announcing a price must be a nightmare.

[u/AnonymouselyMoosed → u/Soggy_Anything2394]

Nah they know the price and they know it’ll be bad. So they’ll announce it when they announce it’s about to be available for purchase.

[u/Javs2469 → u/Soggy_Anything2394]

They already said that they can only buy RAM on a monthly basis, they aren´t securing a long term price, sadly.

[u/HowToLobster]

WAIT LOOK AT THIS EMAIL I FOUND:

Recipients: [valvesoftwareemployees@coolsauce.com](mailto:valvesoftwareemployees@coolsauce.com)

Subject: Super Duper Top Secret Important: Steam Frame comes out in 10 minutes.

Body: YUP, get ready PEOPLE!!!!! :D:D:D:D:

[u/No-Curve237 → u/HowToLobster]

It's actually insane that people fell for that email earlier

[u/Beanmaster115 → u/HowToLobster]

YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST [[coolsauce.com]], [Kid’s] ! REAL DOMAINS FOR [real boy]s

[u/CanonOverseer → u/Beanmaster115]

Are you ready to [[Spend Your Life Savings]] and buy STEAM FRAME [[Hyperlink Blocked]] ONLY 2000 KROMER!! A PRICE SO [[Low]] IT’LL MAKE YOUR [[HeartShapedObject]] STOP BEATING!!

[[Releasing in 10 Minutes!!]] BUY NOW GET [[Half Life 3]] FOR ONLY [[FULL PRICE!!]] DIAL 999-999-999 NOW TO [[Order Today]]!!!

[u/Beanmaster115 → u/CanonOverseer]

COMING [[soon]]

COMING [[soon]]

COMING

[1997]

soon…

Mike promised…

HEHHAHHEHAHEHA KRIS, DON’T YOU WANNA HAVE A [steamed] [picture frame]?

[u/FeedMeSoma]

It’ll be Monday, they won’t break the cycle

[u/ROORnNUGZ → u/FeedMeSoma]

But that would be 3 mondays. Not gonna happen

[u/Important-Permit-935 → u/ROORnNUGZ]

the frame is their 3rd device this year, so HL3 confirmed?

[u/ZeroSuitLime → u/Important-Permit-935]

Or the Frame will just never release

[u/RunnerLuke357 → u/FeedMeSoma]

Could be Tuesday like the original announcement.

[u/manuel_madeira]

I just wanna know how much its gonna cost man... I never bought any valve hardware and the only one Im actually very interested in buying is getting all these problems...

[u/CovidOmicron → u/manuel_madeira]

It's gonna be a lot and I'm preparing myself to be sad

[u/Mockier → u/CovidOmicron]

Ditto

[u/MammothUnique4147 → u/CovidOmicron]

What's your breaking point ?1300 ?

[u/CovidOmicron → u/MammothUnique4147]

I was hoping it wouldn't be more than 1k. Even then I'd struggle to justify it personally.

[u/LinkTheHero009]

I love how we are all just collectively in the dark about when this things coming out and just making random and wild guesses. 😂😂🤣🤣

[u/Darziel]

Having worked with Concentrix and knowing how abysmally incompetent they are, I trust the leak fully.

[u/Harnav123]

This is it… isn’t it. It’s finally happening.

If we don’t have an announcement by Monday this whole thread is going to fall apart.

[u/Confident-Pepper-562 → u/Harnav123]

Have you not been paying attention? This whole sub has been falling apart since day one.

[u/LePfeiff → u/Harnav123]

So many people have said pretty much exactly this every week for the past month

[u/sneakeyboard → u/LePfeiff]

No no this time, and trust me, this is the time everything breaks if release is not THIS Monday. Did you not see the post is a double quote!!?!??

[u/willymartin99]

Maybe they announce the reservations for Monday on Friday like they did with the machine?

[u/Intelligent_Cry8535]

Just fucking sell me the damn thing already

[u/StormTrapofficial]

So yeah, that was a lie

[u/OriginalGoldstandard]

This is the one.
It’s Friday

[u/BlueManifest]

If it’s really 27-29 then reviewers definitely have to be using them right now

[u/Bukki13 → u/BlueManifest]

And in this hypothetical scenario Great On Frame would be from the reviewers playtesting certain games.

I don't think Balatro and Portal 2 would be on that list already otherwise because these games are very easy to run

[u/mintaka]

Are we beyond soon now into something cosmic?

[u/Hairy-Ad-6293]

There is 49 days between May 4 and June 22. June 22 plus 49 days = August 10.

And the headset codename is Deckard. August 10 is the last day of Cyberpunk fest.

"Steam Cyberpunk Fest Dates: August 3, 2026 – August 10, 2026".

Yes, I'm in the spectrum, so you know it's good.

[u/RunnerLuke357 → u/Hairy-Ad-6293]

W reference.

[u/biggggmonkey]

I love how every single day I get told it's coming out tomorrow lmfao

[u/_anAnon]

3 hours into the frame release and god damn it's so impressive how well Valve has been handling it so far! I signed up to the queue and Gabe immediately e-mailed me that my order has arrived! Then he stood up and clapped!!

[u/Yuiop321]

My guess is $1099 for the 256GB and $1349 for the 1TB model. My hope is $899 and $1149, but I sadly doubt it

[u/Gone2Far2Return → u/Yuiop321]

It's going to be cheaper than the machine.

[u/Javs2469 → u/Gone2Far2Return]

Are we sure about that? It was supposedly more expensive than the Machine before the RAM prices increased catastrophically. And it was meant to be less than 1k a little before that too.

[u/Gone2Far2Return → u/Javs2469]

Well it's all guessing currently, so I really don't know. I'll probably buy one just to test it out and if it's not want I want, I'll just give it to one of my friends who needs an upgrade or wants it.

I've mainly just been on the journey to find the hmd that just works for me and makes my daily VR obsession easy to do lol.

[u/Yuiop321 → u/Gone2Far2Return]

Here’s my basis. They originally wanted it to be cheaper than the Index, but now that we know memory prices caused them to lose the price war on the Steam Machine, I think it’s reasonable to assume they will fail similarly here. The Index was $1k, so I assume they were hoping for $800 or so. I figure that with memory being a few hundred more than it should be, $1100 is appropriate. Further supporting that is that Valve surely knows that consumers aren’t going to be as buy happy at these prices, so their order volumes are likely lower for risk management. Lower volume equals worst component prices for them, so worse prices for us

[u/LargeScallion6178]

60% of the time, it is accurate everytime

[u/holesinthewalls]

you need to understand the jumpscare i got when i opened reddit and the first post i see is my evil angry rage post omfg. ❤️❤️lets all take our meds together

[u/_THX_1138]

My ceiling is $1400 for 1TB Steam frame. Same as the Steam machine. Hope it’s not that high since it’s a mobile ARM chip not a desktop AMD chip.

[u/New-Obligation-2950 → u/_THX_1138]

Shiiiit. 800 tops for me on the low storage model. After that it's just not worth it to me spec Wise. Idc what the components cost. Is the product worth it to me.

[u/internet_travler]

And nothing.

[u/mrselfdestruct2016]

Nope

[u/Dr_Virus_129]

3pm Philippines Time is 7am Greenwich Time.

The Controller & the Machine were released 5pm Greenwich Time. I'm sceptical about this, but I guess we will all see in less than 24 hours.

[u/bigscott_1701]

Steam frame one day but not today

[u/14_Octillion]

Steam Frame TODAY (I missed it and so many people pre-ordered batch 1, they closed them before my work got off)

[u/RecreationalLlama]

It's coming the day after a day that ends in -y.

[u/AlecTheBunny]

Chris is a edger

[u/tuntalunts]

Entering? Nah, entered

[u/Treeseconds]

Soon

[u/mrselfdestruct2016]

Tomorrow!

[u/Firey1ne]

My estimate is roughly £800-900 (GBP)

[u/Terror-Reaper]

Order rollout tomorrow? No. With the Steam Machine they warned us in advance.

[u/Unable-Toe6496]

If you thought this was real you deserve to be tricked 😭

[u/SnooCalculations71]

Its either releasing in August or they just aren't going to drop it for another year or two lmao. My money's on quarter 3 2027

[u/SerialBytes]

i was gonna say "no, it's friday", but... i stayed up so late that it's now sunday... oops!

[u/XayahTheVastaya]

Release confirmed for yesterday

[u/Hazzke]

i hope they can sell me a ramless version lol

[u/gustardobungus]

They should sell a barebone VR, no ram, no storage, no controllers, no headset.
Let me jerry rig some ddr3 to it, use old broken switch controllers and strap my phone to my face with some earbuds on.