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At this point, the hardware is almost certainly locked in. They were originally expecting to ship these things by now; supply issues are the primary reason they aren't in gamers' hot little hands already.
The software, on the other hand, is probably getting some extra polish with this extra time.
But also:
The longer the Hormuz conflict goes on, the more oil and gas prices go up. The more shipping costs go up.
The more everything costs go up, if 'everything' is classed as 'basically anything you might regularly purchase'.
So... they're now in quite a bind, because their possible purchasers, their target demo, are actively and rapidly becoming poorer, as time goes on.
When you consider that the main driving factor for the Steam Machine is to make it easier and more appealing for people to purchase games on Steam, they're kinda in a bind anyways.