Predict the Steam Machine starting price

Predict the Steam Machine starting price

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$500 for the base model, $699 for the 2TB. If it's more than that, I think it's dead in the water to anyone other than Valve fans. It's a nice system but it's essentially last gen specs and competing with the PS5. If they stand a chance in the console market, they've gotta come out with a killer price.
 
dcx4610 said:
$500 for the base model, $699 for the 2TB. If it's more than that, I think it's dead in the water to anyone other than Valve fans. It's a nice system but it's essentially last gen specs and competing with the PS5. If they stand a chance in the console market, they've gotta come out with a killer price.
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At that cost, it would be better to just buy the 512 GB model and upgrade to a 100$ 2280 2 TB SSD which will run circles around the 2240 SSD, the steam machine ships with.
 
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Old APU, likely using amd wraith cooler to cool it.

Pastic box for $5 from temu.

512 gb ssd. Low amount of ram as well.

Everything placed on a cheapest motherboard that can be supplied.

300 W psu, not sure if its internal.

Cannot see this being above $500.
 
$799 (512GB) and $999 (2 TB) options.

Not counting the gamepad and VR headset, they wouldn't be included since both would be sold separatedly.
 
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If it has a controller bundled in I would love this to be 549€ or less. I hope they will be able to match that price given it's a PC so components aplenty + not having to pay Nvidia AI AI AI tax on the GPUs.
 
Checked official page.

Its drawing mere 30 w for cpu, 110 w for gpu.

Pretty much laptop level power draw with old generation components.

Better to get a 5050 laptop I say.
 
this could be tempting for point and click adventures, which was the reason I got the steam deck…except a lot of them don't get released on steam deck 🤣…so it lives in a drawer
 
I think that of the price was anything to write home about, it would have been part of the initial presentation.
Since it's not and it's a steam machine, is gonna cost too much
 
With 24gb total memory, a discrete GPU instead of an APU and produced in lower volumes, I don't see how they can possibly sell this at less than a PS5 Digital. $399 seems like fantasy territory.

Heck they still sell the 512gb Steam Deck OLED for $549.

$499 for the 512gb model seems like best case scenario to me.
 
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I watched the DF video and Valve justified the 8GB VRAM because they're aiming for affordability.

Of course no price was given, but for me affordability means 400. 500 at a massive push. Anything over 500 and it's dead.
 
Steam Machine needs to be less than £550 for me to even consider it since it's not as powerful as a current gen console (PS5 or Series X). I'd probably get rid of my 3080 desktop and use it as a replacement despite my 3080 having better GPU performance.
 
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Lucifers Beard said:
They will really have to go in low for people to bite i think. Steam frame is essentially their version of Quest 3 from what it looks like, so it kind of needs to be around the same kind of price I would have thought?

Steam Machine needs to be reasonably priced too since although it is a PC, I imagine you can't upgrade it due to it being a SOC. No idea what the price of this would need to be, but I'd only consider it if the 2TB version was less than £600. I also want to see actual game performance on it too.

Steam Controller I can't see them being successful unless they are between £60-100
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I've been out of the PC space for a long time, but how much would it cost to build your own mini PC with specs similar to this Steam Machine? £500 or less?

If so then that is the price need to go for.
 
Hmmmm, well a 1TB Steam Deck OLED is $650...

Looks at poll...

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Moore's Law Is Dead (guy who leaked the announcement) estimates the price ... queue'd up



TLDR: He estimates the parts to cost Valve around $425. and says anywhere between $450 to $600 is reasonable depending on how aggressive Valve wants to be in getting this out there.
 
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Little Mac said:
Moore's Law Is Dead (guy who leaked the announcement) estimates the price ... queue'd up



TLDR: He estimates the parts to cost Valve around $425. and says anywhere between $450 to $600 is reasonable depending on how aggressive Valve wants to be in getting this out there.
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This makes a lot of sense. It depends on what the goal is. They will make a ton of money just off games, so they can afford to make very little margins on each unit and be close to what Sony offers. If their goal is for the hardware to be profitable, I can see 549/599 but it's going to be a harder sell
 
I think the RAM can be upgraded. But the VRAM is the achilles heel here. How much can you spend on a box with 8GB VRAM that can't be changed. It has the selling point of "it just works" in your living room, until games that need over 8GB don't. The price needs to be low or the value proposition drops rapidly for me. My cutoff is 400.

I realize they might need to take a loss to realize that, but other living room gaming devices that funnel you to their specific store do the same thing. In fact, that's why we buy those devices, even though they don't have a lot of VRAM. Convenience and affordability.
 
$699 for the 2tb version and a controller. Figure in that online play is free over the course of its lifetime as opposed to $300+ for a console and it's a great deal. Plus its a PC so you'll be able to find games really cheap.
 
Anything more than 400$ makes this thing pointless. It's weaker than a PS5 in gaming and is targeting the pc market, which values good graphics and performance. If you're going to draw in console gamers to the pc, you need to price this competitively and put in tech that is at least as good but more modern, which is possible if they put in something like a 4060.
 
kevboard said:
for around $670 you can get a PC that is more powerful, AND upgradable down the line.

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meanwhile, here we have a box that is less powerful than a PS5, has no upgrade path, and has only 8GB of VRAM which means games like Monster Hunter will look like molasses.
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That thing is also huge in comparison. A lot of the cost will be how tiny the Steam Box is. Paying for that convenience for people who want/need it.
 
Tertullian said:
$299 is absolutely delusional. You're not getting that base model for less than $499.
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I hope you are wrong. I wouldn't buy one because I have a good PC. But $399 seems like the sweet spot here. Valve are not driven purely by profit here. They want to decrease windows in the PC ecosystem and start to push back on Microsoft. Pricing not being as aggressive as possible makes no sense to me as a long term strategy here in my opinion and this kind of thinking (hardware needing to be profitable) is just not long term thinking for a company that literally prints money anyway and is not beholden to grotesque shareholders.
 
Probably obvious, and already said, but I'm guessing they didn't announce price to gauge what the public say they'd be willing to pay first.

We decide the price bros!
 
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Sephimoth said:
Probably obvious, and already said, but I'm guessing they didn't announce price to gauge what the public say they'd be willing to pay first.

We decide the price bros!
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You're right. They should give them to us for free tbh(winkwink), and make money from all the games we're going to buy. Like free 2 play games. Gaben, you'll still be able to buy another yacht, it will just take a little bit longer. Plus you'll REALLY be sticking it to MS.
 
ozz ex machina said:
I hope you are wrong. I wouldn't buy one because I have a good PC. But $399 seems like the sweet spot here. Valve are not driven purely by profit here. They want to decrease windows in the PC ecosystem and start to push back on Microsoft. Pricing not being as aggressive as possible makes no sense to me as a long term strategy here in my opinion and this kind of thinking (hardware needing to be profitable) is just not long term thinking for a company that literally prints money anyway and is not beholden to grotesque shareholders.
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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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