Don’t expect Steam Machine pricing to be good; the AI boom killed that idea Yesterday, Valve increased the price of its Steam Deck handheld, a long-delayed (but necessary) response to rising DRAM and NAND storage prices. The greed of Venture Capitalists and the Private Equity firms that see easy money in AI datacenters has killed […]

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The Steam Deck OLED returned in stock yesterday, but with a catch: the price has been significantly increased in all regions. This doesn't bode well at all for the upcoming Steam Machine, as, according to a tidbit shared by known leaker Brad Lynch, its price will be much higher than expected. "Take this with a grain of salt, because it was just whispers in my ear. But back when I was told a figure for what Valve’s estimated price they’d have to set the starting price of Steam Machine, it was still higher than today’s Steam Deck prices," the leaker […]

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The Steam Deck OLED is back in stock, Valve has announced, but its return is not necessarily a cause for celebration, as it returns with a major change. The price has been given a huge increase, with the base 512GB model jumping from its previous $549 USD price tag to a whopping $789. The 1TB model, for its part, has gone up from its previous $649 to $949. In a blog post, Valve blames the price increase directly on "rising memory and storage costs" while admitting that the handheld PC hasn't changed at all. "These new prices reflect the current […]

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The release date for the Steam Machine has yet to be confirmed, but the system is now much closer to release, as Valve's upcoming gaming system was added to the official Khronos Vulkan conformant product database a couple of days ago. The new entry, which lists the Steam Machine as "AMD Steam Machine", was added on May 23 and also provides additional details on the hardware, which is supported by Vulkan 1.4 via an open-source driver for AMD GPUs. While the addition of the Steam Machine to the official Vulkan-conformant products database may suggest the system's launch could be imminent, […]

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