Steam Frame pricing and release date revealed by Valve - it's a lottery again
- Steam Frame 256GB: 1,059 USD / 1,529 CAD / 1,049 EUR / 889 GBP / 1,609 AUD / 4,539 PLN
- Steam Frame 1TB: 1,299 USD / 1,859 CAD / 1,279 EUR / 1,089 GBP / 1,969 AUD / 5,549 PLN
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I was looking forward to getting this, but not at that price. Guess I'll check back in with VR in another 5-10 years.
Honestly I'm shocked at the price. In a good way. They originally said last year it would be less than the Index, which was about $1k, so I fully expected it to have the same 33% increase as the Steam Deck and Machine.
Beginning of this year, I was stoked to get the controller, machine, and frame.
After the controller came out, decided it was a bit too pricey for the partner and me, not to mention how impossible it was to get your hands on one anyway, so we decided to skip.
Then the Machine comes along, and could not justify that cost either. Wanted a small living room box and it looks so sleek, but the price to power ratio just is not there for me, so decided to skip this too.
Well, all money saved for the Frame right? Sigh... Nah man, not at this price. Not to play Beatsaber and Pistolwhip every one in a while. Ah well.
Good luck to all on the lottery, hope you enjoy it.
Thanks AI!
I was super pumped about these as well, and same experience. I have a steam deck and I really just leave docked to my TV for 99% of the time. The steam frame is somewhat surprising (I thought it might come in at a higher price point), but based on my experience just trying out a few other VR sets, it feels like a really expensive gimmick.
I don't have any advice for the controller and frame, unfortunately. But check out mini PCs for a potentially cheaper Steam Machine replacement. You can easily put SteamOS on it and get a very similar experience.
and there it is. ouch.
It's higher than I'd like, but lower than I feared. All you had to do is look at flagship phone prices to get a feel for where the floor of the price could be.
oh, you're not going for the Steam Frame Duo? :P
Yeah, fuck AI.
As much as I would like to upgrade to this, the price is just too steep at this point for me.
A foldable Iphones or two of these? I'm taking neither but if I had to choose I'd never take the first option.
You'd probably get a whole lot more use out of a phone...
You could also buy a phone that's one third of the price and has about the same specs as the expensive one. That isn't really true in the VR market
So standard Valve bullshit to milk the marks so GabeN can buy new Aston Martins for his son.