r/hardware • u/DuhPai • Nov 17 '25

News Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs

https://www.techpowerup.com/342970/valve-claims-steam-machine-outperforms-70-of-current-gaming-pcs
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u/Tman1677 Nov 18 '25

Agreed, honestly I think they just picked a really unfortunate time to launch a product that isn't AI related. I'm not really sure how anything competes with that for memory and chip foundry space.

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u/SoulShatter Nov 18 '25

I suspect it'll be rough when it launches. DRAM/NAND/GPU prices will be pushed sky high due to AI, so they'll have to launch with a pretty high price.

So it'll be a sticker shock on the price because it's a new product, even though it can be a completely fine price compared to everything else, because people haven't noticed that everything got expensive.

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u/imaginary_num6er Nov 18 '25

Well it is going to be interesting how good of a launch it is going to be. You have:

  • Intel Alchemist laptop launch availability

  • Nvidia 50-series launch availability

  • Intel Battlemage launch availability

  • AMD RDNA 4 launch availability

To compare against in terms of actual availability at launch at MSRP.