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Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing (Q1/Q2 of 2026) and other FAQs

Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing and other FAQs - Sopuli

The Steam Machine and Steam Frame are probably delayed, but they still intend to release them in the first half of this year. They said they planned to have a concrete launch window and pricing by now, but hardware pricing/shortages have made that hard to pin down.

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SatyrSack Feb 5

But the memory and storage shortages you’ve likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).

Steam Machine’s SSD (NVMe 2230 or 2280) and memory (DDR5 SODIMMs) are both accessible and upgradeable.

I wonder if they are going to end up deciding to sell a barebones SKU without storage/memory.

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big_slap Feb 5

this may be a steam deck situation where they have different tiers and the lowest tier has the least amount of storage and ram, I can definitely see that happening

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kboos1

They did confirm two tiers for the Machine a 512gb and a 2tb. If they come out with a bare bones I’ve got a couple 500gb or 250gb drives lying around from old builds.