Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing (Q1/Q2 of 2026) and other FAQs
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.
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.
I used to think that would be a bad idea (because it's very un-console-like to sell a device that isn't plug-and-play out of the box) but I might be coming around on it a bit if it means a more affordable option.
They'd need to make it very clear to buyers, though.
The future is where ram is now a scarce item and everything comes with a easy pop in/out external ram slot and people are expected to move ram between devices.
It’d be like a SD card reader on laptop on all new hardware, but for ram.
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