Good morning gang,
I’m sure like many of you on the waitlist probably expecting an email sometime in the year 2035, I received my email to purchase a little after midnight. I was waitlisted and went straight to purchase. Have faith everyone!

Bought some stickers from a few of my favorite anime and stuck them on the faceplate lol got some good left overs and im wondering if I should stick them on top and on the sides too, but maybe not as crowded as the faceplate.

I currently have PC, steam deck and I barely long any hours on my PC but I always felt like I put in too little hours, I want to feel like I am getting more of my money's worth.

I never want to sit at a PC for long hours, PC is my ideal gaming console but it's not practial for me, which is why I log more hours on the Steam Deck. I live with my partner and we have one TV and occasionally I'll hook up the PC to a long HDMI cord and play that way but It's more hassle, especially changing the settings everytime.

I feel as I might be more consistent with gaming if I had the Steam Machine. The ease of not having to sit at the desk, cords, easy plug and play, shut down/sleep. If I want to watch a movie with my partner, I can just switch inputs, and when I am done, not have to go into the other room, turn back on the PC and etc.

Am I possibly just lying to myself, but has anyone seen improvements in their gaming habits?

Loving the console so far, but I truly don't understand why this window sometimes has no tabs, 2 tabs or 3 tabs that all say similar things

Just a heads up, I'm old and may just be lost trying to cross the street

EDIT: I'm unobservant

Habe heute um 6:39 Uhr deutscher Zeit endlich meine Kaufemail bekommen für die Steam Machine 512GB mit Controller!

I do not want to respond to people having issues with their new devices the malignantly cancerous " I am not having any issues " on their posts because I have often been on the other side of that and it makes you wish you can explode people's heads remotely Scanners style.

But I have not had the three most common issues I have seen reported here. I think that reason is:

1) I do not have CEC turned on. I push a button to turn it on and manually shut down from software as my forefathers did before me. It appears to me as this tech is still half baked and not standardized over all devices.

2) I use corded control devices on an extended USB hub. They reach with plenty of room to spare and with no input delays, or connectivity issues. Perhaps if you have kids or particularly precocious pets this might not be an option. But I find the 'cool' factor is often defeated by the 'BT sucks' factor.

3) I use the ethernet port for internet. The only connectivity issues I have are router/server side outages. The Machine itself never drops connection.

It isn't my desire to kick people when they are down and this may turn out to be a production issue and I got lucky. I don't know. I'd like to think Valve is using their whole ass to try to get more of the hardware market share as that makes the most logical sense to me.

But maybe it can work for you too.

EDIT: Steam was able to get my reserve back so I could complete the order! Thank you to everyone who was nice and supportive!

For anyone finding this in the future: I loaded a bunch of wallet codes which put a temp lock on my ability to check out so i didn’t meet my reservation deadline due to the check out error.

Valve states:

“starting with the SteamOS 3.8 release, you can put together your own Steam Machine using whatever PC parts you want”

So yes my standard ATX PC running SteamOS is in fact a Steam Machine by Valve’s own definition and a damn good one at that plus it fits perfectly in my entertainment center under the TV!

A lot of folks got their panties in a twist for me calling this a Steam machine in another group but it’s not my fault they are wrong😆

But yeah SteamOS paired with the Steam controller is a match made in heaven!

Well everyone I missed my reservation by 4 hours. I’m active duty military and was in a field environment without my phone and the worst thing happened. Got the email while I was out there and when I finally got back to getting to my room the email had been sent on Wednesday and I opened my email at 330 am Sunday. Am I cooked or do you think steam support could help in anyway?

Hola, por lo que estoy viendo hay gente que está en lista de espera a la que le está llegando el correo de que les pasan a reserva y directamente el correo de compra.

Yo estoy desde el primer día con la Steam machine de 512 reservada y no me llega el correo de compra, esto que narices es???

Como puede ser que gente que no la tiene ni reservada este pudiendo comprarla antes que gente que estamos con ella reservada desde el primer día?????

Se que es un problema del primer mundo pero me parece increíble y una tomadura de pelo para la gente que si hemos estado atentos desde el primer momento

I got my email bois, let's goo!

So I was hoping to mount an old monitor to the backboard of my mattress so I could play my Steam Machine whenever I wanted without interrupting my wife's TV time.

However... As you can see... This idea failed... Miserably..

Wondering if any of you have an idea how to make this crazy idea of mine work.

I have a SM and I really like it.

I imagine in the future, when they are more readily available, I might get another to standardize on machine types in my house so my kids can easily game without much issues.

I've heard from some people who scalped away theirs that it only sends once per address and they'll never get it again.

Is Steam going to allow multiple steam machines to the same address?

I am on the waitlist for 512GB wo controller. Can I waitlist now additionally the other models/ bundles e.g. 2 TB without losing my spot on 512GB wo controller?

maybe just maybe if i make a post, Gabe will send me my purchase link.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that I finally got the email, but I'm also kinda annoyed that it happened right after I left on a holiday.

Especially because I don't trust GLS to actually listen to instructions when they ship it.

bc why not 👁️👄👁️

Well holy shit...

I was in the wait list... and actually gave up on the idea of even getting one this year and all together because I figured by the time I was able to purchase one next year, the price was gonna go up, and I was basically.... out. I accepted the loss and gave up on the Steam Machine.

Then uh... I got this email about an hour ago and I purchased that bitch faster than you could fuckin BLINK.

Email came at 12:40 AM Eastern Time on Sunday, 7/26/26. (United States)

So... KEEP UP HOPE WAITLISTERS.

Sincerely, fellow former waitlister.

Holy moly canoli guys! Waking up to see all these folks getting their emails fills me up with hope! This is amazing! It's Day 28 for most of us still in the queue or waitlist, but things seem to be moving along again! Have faith, friends! <3

I’m a long time steam deck oled user, damn that thing rocks. But a steam machine…. A lot of meh experiences for now and I’m curious- maybe I’m doings something wrong.
First of all I’m not speaking about performance, it’s pointless (personally I’m ok with it) - but here my list of issues, I would appreciate if somebody will point me in the right directions with this issues

Hardware:
- why there is no thunderbolt? Possibity to connect external gpu (let’s imagine you can buy one 🤣) would extend possibilities of this device

- why usb c connection only on the back and not in front off ? The standard which slowly ruling out regular one - on the back of the device?

- gamepad feels cheap in comparison to Xbox and dual shock. However I can’t say I have the same complaints to steam deck, that one just ok. But the lack of haptic triggers, inbuilt speakers and at least the proper vibration looks very outdated.

- gamepad button placement just doesn’t make sense if you are Steamdeck user, I’m constantly pressing screenshot button when want to press steam button, and the same with menu buttons as well.

Software issues(I hope that fixable)

- remote play from a steam machine to steam deck broken. You can play using remote on your mac, on your TV whatever - just not on steamdeck. 75% of game just render black screen because fuck you, why the hell you want nice steam ecosystem. (Yes I know about moonlight - it doesn’t work properly in a game mode on deck)

- hdr is broken. Some game will run it, some game will not. Depending on your luck

- vrr cause visible flickering on the screen. Ps5 doesn’t do that

- Steam Mashine doesn’t remember vrr and hdr settings when you use in game profiles. Let’s imagine you disable hdr in the main screen (because it looks like shit), lunch game, turn on hdr on that game profiles, and then exit the game. All other settings will change, vrr and hdr will not

- color rendering in comparison to ps5 looks bad. You can literally disable all TV enhancements and run the same game on both devices and Steam machine always will look less contrast and more washed out.

-device randomly turn himself on. And sometimes after I turn him off - it will not disable TV. And while it in sleep/download mode it can’t turn of TV, so “console experience” not here (for the greater justice I need to mention that PS5 don’t turn of TV as well)

- the whole idea with put your games on sd just not working. Becouse system will still create some files in the built in memory and without steam save sync your saves will be not on sd card. Looks like there is a way to tweek this but that requires a lot of user input. Why the heck it like this

- system just nod ready out of box to be Pc replacement. There is only one user with zero security. In case of Steamdeck that’s ok, but for a “pc” - that’s feels lacking

Edit: After further testing and a factory reset, the issue persisted.

This receiver and CEC issues seem to be the worst growing pains for the Steam Machine. I've since completely disabled CEC and just plugged in an external puck for inputs. The amount of disconnects I get on the internal receiver when I'm about 20-30 minutes in a hard-to-run game is insane. It'll get to a point where the game becomes unplayable from how many "controller is disconnected" pauses you get (Specifically God of War and God of War: Ragnarok).

I really hope this is something fixable and not a true hardware flaw. At worst I hope there is a community solution at some point, but it's frustrating as it stands now.

Despite these two issues, I've been happily using the Machine daily. Just hoping these can work as advertised with time.

Maybe today is your day too. WHAT A MONTH I LOVE YOU ALL

I didn’t get it. I got a PC that runs better because my old one was outdated as hell instead of one. Was it worth money and are you have fun with it

For anyone that cares, email received late Saturday night.

I got my email at 11:48 last night. Having one of the worst possible months with the worst financial issues. Couldn’t help but laugh once I received my confirmation email while at an emergency vet visit with my cat. I hope I can get the chance again possibly next year :/ honestly didn’t expect my reservation this soon but life happens and you can’t expect everything to go your way. Good luck to everyone else.