Valve is revisiting Steam Machine pricing and release timing due to "rapidly" increasing memory and storage shortages

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"Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed. But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates"

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Looks like the Steam Machine is going to be a little more expensive than expected due to what Valve calls a "rapidly" increasing shortage of storage and memory.

In a new update on the Steam Hardware lineup that was announced in November, Valve says it initially planned to reveal pricing and release timing details by now, but the ongoing and unprecedented memory chip shortage – made worse by a surge in demand from AI data centers, according to the International Data Corporation – threw a wrench in those plans.

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