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Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love
📰 James Archer
👤 James Archer
🕒 2026-06-23 01:00:19
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Steam Machine定价接近900英镑，被部分用户认为性价比不足，但其作为客厅PC的独特定位仍具吸引力。该设备在Steam心愿单榜单排名第八，但面临游戏支持不足和经济环境不佳的双重挑战。
Have to say, it was more fun when the
Steam Deck
launched. That was a cool thing, afforded the space and the grace to just be a cool thing. The new
Steam Machine
, by contrast, arrives at a time when the creative industry it relies upon is being
stripped to the bone
, and the physical components it’s built upon are
trapped
in a historically terrible
econo-ravaging
. Also, everyone hates each other.
As powerful as Valve are, there’s only so much a little SteamOS box can shrug off. The
original Steam Machines
, sent on their way
before the game support was ready
, already proved it. And it’s impossible to ignore how this new system,
pitched last year
as another Deck-inspired entry in the underserved budget market, is
nearly 900 quid
- assuming you go for the lowest-spec option. This, alone, will surely launch a thousand YouTube thumbnails declaring that the Steam Machine (8th in Steam’s Wishlist charts at the time of writing) is dead on arrival.
That, however, would not be a deserved end. The Steam Machine might not spark the
same childlike wonder
that its handheld uncle did, but looking past the numbers and actually living with it – as a discreet but quietly capable companion, more at home under a TV than perched on a desk – reveals it as not just a superior to those original Machines, but truly unlike any other PC you could build or buy. That’s worth
something
, even if it that something isn’t necessarily 1208 of your pounds.
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Steam Deck
launched. That was a cool thing, afforded the space and the grace to just be a cool thing. The new
Steam Machine
, by contrast, arrives at a time when the creative industry it relies upon is being
stripped to the bone
, and the physical components it’s built upon are
trapped
in a historically terrible
econo-ravaging
. Also, everyone hates each other.
As powerful as Valve are, there’s only so much a little SteamOS box can shrug off. The
original Steam Machines
, sent on their way
before the game support was ready
, already proved it. And it’s impossible to ignore how this new system,
pitched last year
as another Deck-inspired entry in the underserved budget market, is
nearly 900 quid
- assuming you go for the lowest-spec option. This, alone, will surely launch a thousand YouTube thumbnails declaring that the Steam Machine (8th in Steam’s Wishlist charts at the time of writing) is dead on arrival.
That, however, would not be a deserved end. The Steam Machine might not spark the
same childlike wonder
that its handheld uncle did, but looking past the numbers and actually living with it – as a discreet but quietly capable companion, more at home under a TV than perched on a desk – reveals it as not just a superior to those original Machines, but truly unlike any other PC you could build or buy. That’s worth
something
, even if it that something isn’t necessarily 1208 of your pounds.
Read more