Predict the Steam Machine starting price

Predict the Steam Machine starting price

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I'd guess around $599 or $699 for the 512mb model.
I saw people saying the GPU is comparable to a RTX4060 laptop. You can find those for like $850, and considering this thing has no screen, battery, keyboard, windows license, Nvidia tax, etc I think it should be doable for $599. Specially if Valve is willing to lower the profit margin a bit (considering most people will use the device to buy games on Steam).

That said, at that price I'm not interested.
 
What fucks me off is no matter how expensive it ends up being and with seemingly everyone saying economies are in the shitter, everyone losing their jobs, food prices are absurd, OMG how will we survive....it will still sell out day 1 and be very hard to get for months afterwards.

Why does any new technological gaming device constantly sell out. Baffles me how there seems to be an endless, bottomless pit of disposable cash for stuff like this.
 
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Dr.D00p said:
What fucks me off is no matter how expensive it ends up being and with seemingly everyone saying economies are in the shitter, everyone losing their jobs, food prices are absurd, OMG how will we survive....it will still sell out day 1 and be very hard to get for months afterwards.

Why does any new technological gaming device constantly sell out. Baffles me.
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The good thing about this though is it will at least be easier to get then some other things assuming they have stock.

With the Steam Deck you had to sign up for reservation and put a down payment (it was only like $5 or something) through your steam account but they blocked new accounts by requiring you to have made a purchase prior to a certain date and they limited it to 1 per account. So essentially blocked people from making new Steam accounts in order to buy multiple/scalping.
 
Anything more than $499 for the base model will be too much. If I had to guess, they are struggling to come in at that price point. Maybe they will settle on $550.
 
BlackTron said:
I agree $399 is a sweet spot, but also agree 299 is absolutely completely delusional. At 399 they are already taking a loss. That's probably where their willingness to pay to meet their goals and customers willingness to pay to get in meet "half way". 399 is my personal limit but I see up to 550 at launch with room for it to drop over time. Depends on Gabe's aggressiveness. I don't think in any universe he's gonna pile on an extra $100 loss though. Rather start high, get the early sales, and phase it down to reach more buyers over time. Down to a low of like 399, 350 after years maybe. There is no 299 launch.
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Oh I agree 299 is impossible. 399 would be best case scenario.
 
700 at least.

Multiple sources have already expressed that Valve told them it will not be priced like a console. 11:05 in LTTs video below, and Gamer Nexus said the same thing in his.




I think 700 is a good price though, reality is that's the new 500.
 
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Dr.D00p said:
What fucks me off is no matter how expensive it ends up being and with seemingly everyone saying economies are in the shitter, everyone losing their jobs, food prices are absurd, OMG how will we survive....it will still sell out day 1 and be very hard to get for months afterwards.

Why does any new technological gaming device constantly sell out. Baffles me how there seems to be an endless, bottomless pit of disposable cash for stuff like this.
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There's tons of money out there, anyone above working class is wealthier than ever.
 
I chose $499, but if it's $399 or less it's pretty firmly in impulse buy territory. I'd get one just to be able to emulate everything through Switch/PS4 and all my older Steam games since shit like FO3 and NV etc are unplayable on the PS5 Pro. If it's $499 or higher I'll probably wait till they show up in the refurbished store.
 
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Tg89 said:
700 at least.

Multiple sources have already expressed that Valve told them it will not be priced like a console. 11:05 in LTTs video below, and Gamer Nexus said the same thing in his.




I think 700 is a good price though, reality is that's the new 500.
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Yeah, only watched this now. They say not only it will be priced "like an entry level PC", but the goal is to be profitable, so they won't go for the sub 499 market. I would assume it will be at least 599
 
Dacvak said:
I wonder if Valve will sell the hardware at a loss. I've always suspected that they sold the Steam Deck at a loss, in the hopes of making that money up in software.

I don't think they need to do that at this point, but I hope they do.
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Valve never sell hardware at a loss - even their VR nonsense costs $1,000.
 
Dacvak said:
I wonder if Valve will sell the hardware at a loss. I've always suspected that they sold the Steam Deck at a loss, in the hopes of making that money up in software.

I don't think they need to do that at this point, but I hope they do.
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I think Pepe estimated that SD LCD costs them around $300 to make.
 
Tg89 said:
700 at least.

Multiple sources have already expressed that Valve told them it will not be priced like a console. 11:05 in LTTs video below, and Gamer Nexus said the same thing in his.




I think 700 is a good price though, reality is that's the new 500.
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He just said that it would be priced like a PC because "there is no guarantee a corporate purchase of 10,000 units would result in a single game sale"

That makes little sense. This thing is designed for playing PC games. It's not designed for big business. Yes, you can use it as a PC, but what company is going to buy thousands of these when it would be cheaper buying in bulk from someone like Dell?

700 sheets or more for those specs is a poor deal.
 
4 times a steam deck... a kidney for sure

Building an 4k 60fps PC isn't cheap and you need a lot of storage
 
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Cyberpunkd said:
I think Pepe estimated that SD LCD costs them around $300 to make.
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Maybe it does now, but there's no way it did back in 2022 with that custom Zen 2 SoC. I'd be shocked if it was under $400.

I've got a friend who helped design that hardware. I'll have to see if he has any numbers he'd be willing to share.
 
If the top of the line Steam Deck, with its subsidized price, is $650, I don't think a non-subsidized Steam Machine is going to be less than that, considering that it looks like Valve wants to imply that a Steam Machine is like two Steam Decks duct taped together, at least.

#gabecube
 
IDKFA said:
He just said that it would be priced like a PC because "there is no guarantee a corporate purchase of 10,000 units would result in a single game sale"

That makes little sense. This thing is designed for playing PC games. It's not designed for big business. Yes, you can use it as a PC, but what company is going to buy thousands of these when it would be cheaper buying in bulk from someone like Dell?

700 sheets or more for those specs is a poor deal.
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I agree. 700 sheckles for this would be massively overpriced.
 
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