{"id":653991,"date":"2026-06-23T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653991\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:50:08","slug":"steam-machine-launches-with-879-price-tag-as-valve-cites-component-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/653991\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Machine launches with \u00a3879 price tag as Valve cites component costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve has launched the Steam Machine gaming computer at a higher price than it previously expected, in what it has attributed to soaring component costs.<\/p>\n

The gaming giant said in a blog post, external<\/a> on Monday that its new gaming PC, which also doubles as a console, would retail at \u00a3879 in the UK and $1,049 in the US – a price tag it said reflects hardware costs rising in recent years.<\/p>\n

“The overall effect is that our original goal for the price of Steam Machine is no longer viable,” Valve added.<\/p>\n

The price also comes amid a broader pattern of device manufacturers hiking prices up – not down – to swallow rising memory and storage costs.<\/p>\n

Valve announced earlier in 2026 that it was raising prices of its handheld device Steam Deck<\/a> by 40% due to similar expenses.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, it had said its new Steam Controller would cost \u00a385 – raising eyebrows among some gamers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The developer said on Monday the controller would be available alongside a 512GB edition of the Steam Machine in a bundle for \u00a3938.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a 2TB Steam Machine will cost \u00a31,149, and \u00a31,208 with a controller.<\/p>\n

The device was unveiled in November<\/a> as a PC “optimised for gaming” that can also be used as a console.<\/p>\n

It is a spiritual sequel to the 2014 device of the same name, which failed to break into a market dominated by the three big gaming giants of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Valve told gamers on Monday that when it first began sourcing components for the Steam Machine in 2023, “we felt like we had a good understanding of how those costs might change over time”.<\/p>\n

“That understanding was born from the many years of data we all have about the evolution of PC hardware prices – primarily, that it tends to get cheaper over time as new technology arrives,” it said.<\/p>\n

“Over the past year or so, that has changed quickly and significantly, most visibly for RAM [random access memory] and storage components.”<\/p>\n

Piers Harding-Rolls of Ampere Analysis said the market research firm had estimated a starting price between $700-$800 for the Steam Machine.<\/p>\n

But he said rising costs meant “Valve has been unable to deliver a more accessible price point to consumers”.<\/p>\n

Its pricing at 75% more than a PS5 console would also cement it as a “niche offering,” Harding-Rolls added.<\/p>\n

High-end gaming PCs are generally more expensive than consoles, though the games themselves can often be cheaper than those on Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve has launched the Steam Machine gaming computer at a higher price than it previously expected, in what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}