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Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

I feel sorry for them for the team that designed this. They had all this shit ready to go and then the RAM and SSD prices went through the roof, and tbh if you're speccing a machine for mass production, those seem like the bits that were always gonna be cheaper by the time it comes to actually building it. Why would they ever go up? They never have before.

It was a nice idea, but the timing had completely fucked it. I don't think it was ever going to compete with the PS5 on price, but right now it's barely even competing with PC on price...

Even the Steam Deck isn't competitive any more.

This is what shows in Steam when you search for it.

This is all you can buy.

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Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open

It's a brutal time to be releasing hardware like this.

GPU prices, RAM, SSDs, all inflated through the roof.

This should have been the price of a PS5 Pro, with the performance of a PS5 and it's not even that.

I still want the Frame, but only because my OG Rift died a couple of months back. I really don't want to have to go crawling back to Meta for a Quest 3 when I see the price of the Frame, but I'm not optimistic. They really need a reduced spec Frame that just does the streaming portion. With RAM and GPU prices as they are, that would at least make some sense.