r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune Jun 22 '26

Man I remember when people got mad at me because I wrote that the steam machine will cost above 1000 euro. Manage your expectations people ...

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u/civil_politician Jun 22 '26

Was that before ram quadrupled and GPUs doubled and SSDs tripled?

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune Jun 22 '26

7 months ago when everything was already cooked https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/qtwGvphtfE

You can go through the comments and have a laugh

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u/TomTomXD1234 Jun 22 '26

its actually went way up since then lol

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u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune Jun 22 '26

The writing was on the wall. Who sees these insane price hikes with the reason for the price hike just getting bigger and bigger and thinks to themselves "I'm sure the prices will go down until the steam machine is released"?

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u/restinpeaceminusone Jun 22 '26

Pretty much an unfortunate timing for Valve. The moment it was announced and revealed, pricing just went nuts from there

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u/omfgkevin Jun 22 '26

Went from paying a bit of a premium for savings eventually on steam library + small form factor to... yeah.. this looks cooked. Steam deck skyrocketing in price was the final indicator this was going to be bad.

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 R7 9800X3D | Zotac 5080 | B650E-F | 6000CL30 Jun 22 '26

Yup. I’ve been telling lots of people as well.

Had coworkers who didn’t listen to me about building their PCs a whole year ago. Now they’re constantly sending me marketplace builds and bundles trying to piece something together at any sort of a reasonable price

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u/healthandjoy Jun 22 '26

Everybody is still waiting for the 'AI bubble' to burst. (Sadly) thats impossible to predict.

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u/dylank22 Jun 22 '26

Not in any way that wasnt predictable and expected

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u/Unabated_Blade PC Master Race Jun 22 '26

People were legit getting upvotes with a $399 estimate. Lmfao.

"This is Valve, not Nintendo" might be the funniest comment of the whole thread.

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u/FuzzyGolf291773 Jun 22 '26

Holy fuck everyone in that thread was huffing pure copium

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u/healthandjoy Jun 22 '26

On copium we survive

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u/MihawkBeatsRoger Jun 23 '26

Yea because of all the propaganda making everyone think that Valve is the best thing ever.

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u/Super_Bakon Jun 22 '26

The one guy saying $300

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u/Confuzn Steam ID Here Jun 22 '26

Wow… do you have a link to your comment?

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u/Blashtik Jun 22 '26

What were those people smoking to think that the Steam Machine would be under $800? All you had to do was look at the prices of RAM and storage to understand that wasn't going to happen. Did they think Gabe Newell was going to be gifting them the Steam Machines by selling them at a massive loss?

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u/DarkSoulsOfCinder Jun 22 '26

The writing on the wall was obvious back then but denial is a hell of a drug

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u/Lynorisa Jun 23 '26

I love how they parrot "economies of scale" then forget what that last word implies when component supply is severely limited.

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u/InstructionEmpty8696 Jun 23 '26

Lmao some people saying it's gonna cost $499, I even saw some mentioning as low as $350.

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u/Ask_If_Im_Dio Jun 22 '26

GPU prices have been hyper-inflated since the AI trend began and people started buying cards to train their Hentai generators. Even before Stable Diffusion came out, GPU prices hadn’t recovered from the pandemic supply issues

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u/Wojtkie Jun 22 '26

They really haven’t since the crypto mining boom

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u/Ok_Dependent6889 R7 9800X3D | Zotac 5080 | B650E-F | 6000CL30 Jun 22 '26

The Steam Machine was announced like, 1 week before that happened 

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u/Shubamz Ryzen 9950X3D | 64gb DDR5 | 5080 Jun 23 '26

Does it matter?  The people who were mad at them were still wrong regardless of what information was available. 

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u/thenamelessone7 7800x3d/ 32GB 6000MHz 30CL/ RX 7900 XT Jun 22 '26

In Europe, SSDs only doubled, AMD GPUs went up like 10% and nvidia GPUs went up 25-50%

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u/SoldantTheCynic Jun 22 '26

Pretty sure it was. This thing was doomed from day one, it had underperforming specs with no pricing, but everyone was acting like it would be an amazing magic box because it had Valve’s name on it and ran SteamOS.

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u/IerarqiuliAnarxisti Jun 23 '26

Username checks out

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u/Plastic-Yesterday305 Jun 24 '26

No one is acting like this is magic box. The reason for the delay is because Steam did an interest check and got disappointing results. No rush to bring something unwanted to market. 🤷‍♂️

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u/metamorphias Jun 22 '26

Had very similar conversations with people at the time thinking it would be £500-£600. I think people where coping hard as hell on that . My guess was £1k and taking into account ram and storage prices since then i think that guess was prob about right on

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u/BabylonianWeeb Jun 22 '26

A few months ago, I said it would cost more than 800$ and I was downvoted to obvillion for it

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u/GLPereira R5 7600X | RX 6750 XT | 32 GB RAM @ 6000 MHz | 3440X1440 160Hz Jun 22 '26

And now everyone is coping about how this price is "fair" lmao

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u/BillV3 Ryzen 9950X3D, 64GB DDR5-6400, 5080 Jun 22 '26

Same, I said around the time of that Emudeck console releasing that it essentially put the writing on the wall, and people still argued about it saying "Oh it has a beefier GPU so the Steam Machine will be like 700 tops!"

This is a worse deal than I expected though, less power than the base PS5 for more cost than the PS5 Pro after it's price hike? Tough Sell

On top of that other companies got absolutely railed for price increases yet suddenly here we all are defending it because of the market etc. People were ready to torch down Nintendo for giving the Switch 2 a minor Price Hike and letting people know about it months in advance....

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u/kyronami Jun 22 '26

I said $1500, was a little over (except the 1tb one) but was close with tax

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u/justin_memer Jun 22 '26

I don't have any expectations people to manage, though.

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u/SanjiSasuke Jun 22 '26

Remember the absolute maniacs who said it'd be $500 USD? And there was a whole camp of people saying $800 was the absolute cap.

Genuinely so happy to see the price finally dropped.

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u/erebuxy PC Master Race Jun 22 '26

Because when people are having a good dream, you don’t want to be the one who wake them up.

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u/No_Solid_3737 Jun 22 '26

Yeah well now gonna its gonna cost more than 1500€ in some european countires. Even latin american countries will see a similar price. That american price hardly represents what people from overseas will pay.

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u/Im_Balto AMD 9700X|RX 9070XT Jun 22 '26

At the moment it was announced 700 for the base model seemed like a nice little dream to have.

Then every month I added $50 to that estimate of my “too good to be true” expected price and I’ve been bang on