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"It didn't look like things were going to change anytime soon": Valve insist price worries were never behind Steam Machine delays
📰 James Archer
👤 James Archer
🕒 2026-06-23 22:43:12
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Valve新Steam Machine机型原计划2025年底发布，但因组件短缺导致价格飙升并推迟至2025年末延迟原因被归咎于行业性组件短缺和价格波动，Valve官方否认价格担忧是延迟主因
The new
Steam Machine
is
pretty neat
, but it’s walked a long and painful road to reach yesterday’s launch. A secret work-in-progress at Valve since at least 2023, it would be late 2025 before an initial
public showing
, and subsequent
delays
– blamed on industry-wide
components shortages
and the resultant price gouging – meant it that it when it did open for orders, it would be months later and at
considerably greater expense
than planned.
The volatility and unpredictability of the pricing situation may have conjured up images of a hopeful Valve crew, sat with crossed fingers atop a hoard of finished Steam Machines, ready to launch but holding back until production costs settle back down – allowing for a more enticing street price in turn. This, however, was never the case, as Steam Machine designer Lawrence Yang and engineer Yazan Aldehayyat told me over a video call last week.
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Steam Machine
is
pretty neat
, but it’s walked a long and painful road to reach yesterday’s launch. A secret work-in-progress at Valve since at least 2023, it would be late 2025 before an initial
public showing
, and subsequent
delays
– blamed on industry-wide
components shortages
and the resultant price gouging – meant it that it when it did open for orders, it would be months later and at
considerably greater expense
than planned.
The volatility and unpredictability of the pricing situation may have conjured up images of a hopeful Valve crew, sat with crossed fingers atop a hoard of finished Steam Machines, ready to launch but holding back until production costs settle back down – allowing for a more enticing street price in turn. This, however, was never the case, as Steam Machine designer Lawrence Yang and engineer Yazan Aldehayyat told me over a video call last week.
Read more