{"id":2013285,"date":"2026-06-26T21:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2013285"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:05:28","slug":"valve-would-love-a-more-affordable-steam-machine-but-warns-changes-arent-coming-any-time-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2013285","title":{"rendered":"Valve ‘Would Love’ a ‘More Affordable’ Steam Machine But Warns Changes Aren’t Coming ‘Any time Soon’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As players come to grips with the $1,049 price of the Steam Machine<\/a>, Valve has said it would “love to make” it more affordable, while warning that a price drop won’t arrive “any time soon.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat opened up about the Steam company’s hardware strategy during an interview with Digital Foundry<\/u><\/a>. Their words arrive amid shortages for components like RAM and skyrocketing costs for gaming consoles and PCs across the globe.<\/p>\n

The Valve team was asked if they would be open to lowering the price of the Steam Machine should these wider issues be resolved. Griffais admitted that there is “no point for us to keep hardware at a high price.”<\/p>\n

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“It’s meant to be an enabler of a stronger connection between people and their games,” Griffais said, “and not something that we’re trying to sell to people for other reasons… [For us], the cheaper the better.”<\/p>\n

“The cheaper the better” should come as a welcome idea both to those eager to pick up a Steam Machine and those waiting for a price drop. The issue, however, is that the future isn’t exactly set up for costs to come down in the near future.<\/p>\n

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said earlier this week that the expectation is for the AI-driven RAM shortage, specifically, to last at least through 2027<\/u><\/a>. While Mehrotra said the hope is that things will start to ease in 2028, as noted by Digital Foundry and as reported by The Register<\/u><\/a>, the memory technology company just locked in historically high prices for five years.<\/p>\n

Aldehayyat doubled down on the idea that Valve would prefer for its Steam Machine to come down in price. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like such a move will be in the cards for quite some time.<\/p>\n

“It’s obviously hard for us to predict the future, but we’re not optimistic it’s going to happen any time soon,” Aldehayyat explained. “Other people in the industry have said as much.”<\/p>\n