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The Steam Machine Was Originally Meant to Cost About $750
Edit: fixed the title to match the article, I wrongly stated that Valve said the price was supposed to be $750, when that's just IGN's estimate base on Valve's statements.

Valve Says the Steam Machine Saw a Similar Price Increase as the Steam Deck, Which Means It Was Originally Supposed to Cost About $750

Jacqueline Thomas (IGN)
#SteamDeck
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samus12345

The RAMpocalypse has widened the price gap between console makers that subsidize their hardware and Valve more than ever. PS5 got a $150 increase, Steam Deck (and presumably Machine) got a $300 one.
Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 23 de junio de 2026, 21:18)
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jordanlund

$1050 is the new $750. LOL.

I was prepared to pay $1,000 plus extra for the Walnut faceplate and controller.

Having to get the 2TB version to do that stings a little.

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 23 de junio de 2026, 18:06)
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SatyrSack

The original announcement (or some interview or something around that embargo) mentioned that it was going to be cheaper than the Index. Granted that was before the current component crunch and they did not specify whether they meant the base model Index or the full kit with base stations, controllers, etc.

EDIT: roadtovr.com/steam-frame-price-cheaper-than-index/

Steam Frame’s Price Hasn’t Been Locked in, But Valve Expects it to be ‘cheaper than Index’

Steam Frame, Valve’s next VR headset, has been announced, but the company has yet to reveal the price. However, the company says its goal is for Frame to be cheaper than its first VR headset.
Ben Lang (Road to VR)
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Vik

I'll be honest, I've been pretty out of the loop and totally spaced on that. I was basing it from the general product offering (omitting base stations, high bandwidth display cable throughput, overall display specs), and super old leaks from the time where we knew it only by its codename (deckard), suggesting a much lower cost, partially modular system.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Index remained the overall higher quality VR solution for now

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SCmSTR

Apparently the thumbsticks were actually shite? Mine never went out, but I've heard from other people.

I think what sanpo meant was the actual tracking of the headset and controllers, since the index used base stations PLUS accelerometers, giving them VERY precise location and movement. Whereas the frame controllers seem to be only inside-out optical, maybe with accelerometers?

We will have to wait and see. With them being better or worse than the index, we'll have to wait and see. I'm still excited.

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FreeBooteR69

Yup i have 3 base stations, but i also found even with covering all reflective sources, you can suddenly lose tracking for no apparent reason and often made some games annoying to play. I hope the inside out tracking isn't worse, too bad they didn't add some backward compatibility for those who still have base stations.
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JohnEdwa

Though the Index did use an intricate OLED screen and it had the lighthouses and finger tracking controllers (they have 87 different sensors per controller). Without the AIpocalypse, the Frame was originally supposed to be the cheaper of the two.

2026 prices though, who knows. Painful, like any tech hardware, that's for sure.

Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 23 de junio de 2026, 22:27)
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nialv7

don't editorialize the title please. valve didn't say this, this is just one ign writer's speculation based on a very vague answer ("probably similar"). the said writer, btw, can't even do simple math...
Esta entrada fue editada (martes, 23 de junio de 2026, 21:08)
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Fubarberry

Kinda an accident to be honest, the article title is "The Steam Machine Was Originally Meant to Cost About $750", but when I submitted it to Lemmy, the default title for the URL was instead ”Valve Says the Steam Machine Saw a Similar Price Increase as the Steam Deck...”, so I tried to change it back to the actual article title from memory. I was on my phone at the time, so I didn't double check the title as I should have.

I'll fix it now.