Valve is threatening a price shock with the Steam Machine. Analysts are suggesting the console's demise, as RAM prices are driving costs above €1.000.

Valve’s Steam Machine just ran into the RAM shortage and appears to be delayed. When Valve unveiled the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in November, it said to expect shipping in early 2026, with some hacks hearing “Q1 2026”.

Valve has raised the price of both Steam Deck OLED models, with the 512GB variant jumping from $549 USD to $789 USD and the 1TB variant rising from $649 USD to $949 USD Valve cited “the current state of component costs and other global logistical ...

When Valve announced its Steam Machine desktop PC and Steam Frame VR headset in mid-November of last year, it declined to announce pricing or availability information for either device. That was partly because RAM and storage prices had already begun to ...

Valve has confirmed what we all suspected: The limited stock of the Steam Deck OLED in the US is due to the RAM crunch. "Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages," Valve writes on the Steam Deck ...

Valve has now confirmed our worst fears: all of the Steam hardware—Steam Machine, Steam Frame VR headset, and Steam Controller—it announced in November is delayed by a few months because of the creeping influence of the ongoing memory shortage.