Nah, my existing PC is good enough. But I'm very likely to get the Steam Frames once they're out. And I'll probably be playing around with SteamOS on my own machine, just because apparently it's compatible

Yep. I'm downsizing and will be selling my gaming rig in favour of something small and less power hungry. Yes, the cube is more expensive than what I'd like but I'll be making a huge profit from my pre-2025 era PC anyway so I can afford it. It does what I want it to and there may even be opportunity to upgrade individual components down the line anyway since it is effectively just a mini-pc.

I play all my games on Steam and the console like experience sounds like it's up my alley but I prefer having a desktop and streaming over WiFi. If I were to upgrade anything in my setup it'd be a graphics card, not an entire machine.

I'm not really part of the target audience. I already have a laptop that's slightly more powerful and I could hook it up to my TV if that was a thing I wanted to do. I don't need a separate gaming PC for my living room.

I am, yes.

I’ve been building custom PCs for myself and my family/friends for the better part of 2 decades now. I know I can get a better deal on used parts to run a more powerful machine. But you know what means? I play tech support for my friends and family.

I’m buying this for myself but installing it where most people I know come walking through. Setting it up as a show piece to get people to ask about Linux and to ask about the PC. If this thing holds up as well as my Steam Deck with support, updates, and stability? I’ll go halves with all my gamer friends and relatives just to get them on a machine I won’t be called about because windows decided to release another borked update…

Obviously I have the exposable income to support this and am extremely lucky. I fully get why people are upset and think it’s a rip off tho.

No. I already have a good gaming pc. I wanted one for living room gaming but not for that price.

Got a reservation but haven't fully committed yet. I guess I have…er…reservations about it?

yeah, I am a huge valve fan and love everything they put out. It's the perfect emulator machine for me, I can move everything over from my pc to this

Probably, if I can. My PC is a prebuilt one from four years ago, it's really showing its age. I'm not sure if another pre built would be better, but the steam machine has tremendously better stats than my current system.

I know I could probably build a PC and get better value, but I hate assembling the bastards so much its worth having someone else do it for me.

No. The most intensive game I play is Skyrim. Someday though I might take an used SFF pre-built (like the thinkcentre), plop a low profile GPU into it, and play some slightly heavier games lile Dark Souls 3

Probably not.
Even if it does rugs and upholstery both, they just don't get that dirty, normally. Almost all light stains I can get out with a careful application of soap & water and judicious toweling. Plus there's always rentals if needed.

Yes, it's a pretty well built gaming system. I could use a replacement and it's not that expensive compared to systems I've built in the past.

Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

No, but I was never the target audience and I wouldn't have bought one regardless of price. I'm currently using a laptop and if I ever want a stationary gaming machine again I'll just build one myself, I don't care for a console-like experience either so even SteamOS isn't a selling point for me.

So, do you think even at this price point Valve is taking a hit?

Nope. Pretty sure that they're at least breaking even on the hardware. It's a PC, they can't be sure of future game sales. You could use alternative stores, pirate everything, or not use it for gaming at all.

I'm glad it exists because it's a much better alternative to consoles, but no, there's no point in buying that instead of a PC unless you have money to throw around on cool hardware

When the ps6 costs over $1000 this will be positioned well.

Right now it might be ahead of its time but that’s not out of character for valve. It’s easier to react to market conditions if you already have a product than it is to spin one up in a hurry.

I think they expect early adopters at this stage, it will get them early feedback and drives some platform revenue.

I was pretty set on buying one regardless when it was announced and still plan to. I knew the price was going up but with the delay I had time to save more. I like the compactness of it and it would be great next to my Mac Mini M1 on my TV shelf. I also want to reward the adoption of Linux as a gaming platform, and buying Valve hardware is the best way right now to vote with your wallet that Linux is the future of gaming. I bought multiple Steam Decks and I bought both the 2015 and 2026 Steam Controllers. I want the Machine.

Also, it has RGB! I need to get one to add it to OpenRGB.

The question is whether I'll get it with or without a second controller, and I think that comes down to whichever queue I get selected for in the random drawing.

If I didn’t already have a gaming PC and a Steam Deck, maybe.

I don’t have any solid gaming console or PC at the moment.

I have an Xbox Series S, a Nintendo Switch, and a Steam Deck.

I have been wanting to build or buy a decent PC for years, but money has always been tight.

All this to say… maybe? It seems to be on par with the prices of prebuilts. My job uses a third party system to give us bonuses and we can use them to get digital giftcards.

I am trying to convince them to add Steam giftcards to it. If I can get that it means I’ll definitely eventually be able to get a Steam Machine. But also I’m hoping that the price decreases over time, as unlikely as that may be.

This is an “eventual” purchase and not an immediate one, in my eyes at least.

For now, I have plenty of games I can run well on my Steam Deck, since I hardly played my Xbox. 8 basically skipped out on gaming from 2016-2025 really.

The Steam Machine would really just be something I’d remote play from the Deck from to either conserve battery life or run more demanding games, like BG3 or E33. Basically anything with unreal haha.

No. With that price, extra no.

But in the current economy I'm not really buying anything else either.

I was lucky enough to out together a nice PC just before the AI thing made the prices explode, plus I've been a PC gamer all my life (except for the PS1 I had as a kid), so I won't buy the Machine.

That said, I had high hopes it'd be a success, more so given how well the Controller has sold, and that it'd be the things that brought Linux to lots of people who would never consider it otherwise.

Unfortunately, I fear the price will damped things quite a bit.

it's a straight downgrade for me, so no way I'd replace it as my daily driver.

I could consider one if the prices go down like below 600$ range, switch up my media center with it maybe. Impossible with the current prices though.

Nope. Way too expensive.

Unlikely. Was going to get one to replace my old pc but I gave up waiting back in April when a local pc shop had a sale. I'm glad I bought then because the prices have just keep going up since.

Not at current spec and price. I don't think it's worth what I would get. It's also already sold out except the 512 w/ steam controller version for my region so I couldn't even if I wanted to for the larger spec versions.

I'll just slowly continue to upgrade my PC as money allows.

I would if it was $499

Consoles never made sense to me. I need to upgrade my GPU soon I guess, my GTX 1660S wants to get replaced at one point. However I am enjoying rising Linux compatibility, last 2 years have been great. So go guys buy Valve hardware ;)

I'm 50/50 as of today and have another day or two to decide before the wait list closes. The 2TB version with controller is the only one I would want, and it is 50% more than I wanted to spend.

But, the form factor and being ready to go out of the box is extremely enticing. The games I would play on it are the ones in my backlog that I don't get to as they are more fun on a TV than a PC but switching screens is annoying. The way I see it is the steam machine is buying a console that can play all of the games I already have, which is far better deal than a console that I would need to buy games for.

It wouldn't be a great way to spend money today, but it wouldn't be a strain so I might end up flipping a coin tomorrow to decide.

It's a point of pride to build my own PCs, including Linux boxes.

No. I'll go for a regular PC at any price point really.

I still favour steam over the competitors due to their work on Proton and Linux in general.

Profitable console, probably not. Consoles are usually loss leaders but 93% of the Steam market is windows. They need to do something about it to not have nightmares about DirectX13 being Microsoft store only and 48 months of antitrust litigation bleeding them dry. They don't have to be successful, just a credible threat to keep Microsoft honest.

Other consoles probably won't change price because of the Steam machines, but may change price for the same reason a Steam machine does.

So serious question....why would anyone who owns a pc already buy this instead of saving up and upgrading their rig instead? Correct me if I'm wrong but your essentially buying a console for over a $1000 just to play some steam games? Sure it will run indie games no problem but you cant enjoy any current day AAA titles at their full potential with out melting this cube that looks like has no airflow. Also unless I'm missing something it has integrated cpu/GPU?

Yup

I could afford it pretty easily if I needed it but I don't currently need a new PC so no reason to get one right now.

If I was looking for a new PC I would consider it but I kinda like building my own and having a case that comfortably fits anything I may want to put in there. Mini PCs are currently tempting me but that is on the very low spec/price side of things.

Running an RTX2070 right now and it is more than I need, tbh I am almost tempted to just wait until an iGPU is an upgrade, would mean replacing my 7th gen Ryzen too but by that point it will probably be fine.

Either way, if I don't need more performance then perhaps more power efficient is something to go for. Maybe in 2035 I will be gaming on a low-mid spec miniPC. Should be fine to run Factorio, Rimworld, CDDA... Hey, by then it will be retro gaming too, indie games from 2010s. But some of them may well still be getting updates.

Are you gonna buy?

Probably not.

do you think even at this price point Valve is taking a hit?

No, as that would be stupid of them. Why would they subsidize a normal PC? This would lead to people buying them with the purpose of deliberately not using steam.

Do you think if this sells well it will drastically increase the cost of other consoles (completely independent of the external factor being hardware shortage due to AI)

Excluding the whole AI bs: it should not but it probably will as any way to raise the prices is welcome to Microslop, Sony and Nintendo.

Since I build my own computers and already have a living room PC running Linux, I wouldn't have even for $700.

I'm curious how it'll sell. Steam Controller is expensive but has high demand. Possibly the same thing happens even if the Steam Machine makes no sense for (probably?) most people posting here.

Simply cannot justify that price.

I really want a powerful miniPC to replace my Rokus and also play 80% of my library. But $1100 for the 512gb without a controller is a hard pill to swallow. I can get an equivalent laptop for about the same price or less, and it's still portable.

Microcenter $1200

I reserved a 512gb and a 2tb, but I may hold out for the Frame. I fell like Valve should rethink the strategy, because there are a lot of console gamers that would break into the market if the price is right, $1,100 is too high. Especially since it still won't be able to play games with anti-cheat, so most of the competitive games aren't even an option.

I already have a full n gaming PC, but I also played a bit over the last month and built a Steam Machine for under $400 using an AMD BC-250 crypto mining card. From bc-250.info: A cut-down PlayStation 5 APU with 6 Zen 2 cores and 24 RDNA2 compute units, sharing 16GB of fast GDDR6 memory.

It takes some tweaking and it's not top of the line, but it's a fun project that can play most games. There is also a script that can let you unlock disabled compute units to increase performance assuming they are not damaged.