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Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'

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The Steam Machine's price isn't certain yet, but don't expect it to come subsidized.

Valve's new Steam Machine during a visit to Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. The Steam Machine is a compact living room gaming PC.
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The Steam Machine might remind you of a console—it's a cute little box instead of a monolith of noisy fans, it's well-suited to play on a TV, and you don't have to build the damn thing yourself. It's like the Steam Deck in that way, but it might cost quite a bit more than Valve's celebrated handheld, as Valve coder Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed on the Friends Per Second podcast.

"If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at," Griffais said on the podcast. "Ideally, we'd be pretty competitive with that and have a pretty good deal, but we're working on refining that as we speak. Right now is just a hard time to have a really good idea of what the price is gonna be."

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When asked if the Steam Machine would be subsidized like a console, which tend go for around $450-600 USD these days, Griffais said no. That isn't to say the device will necessarily be priced like a prebuilt PC, though. As he continued on the podcast: "Obviously our goal is for it to be a good deal at that level of performance, and then, you have features that are actually really hard to build if you're making your own gaming PC from parts." Examples he gave were the Machine's small size, ability to interface with a TV remote and be turned on by the controller, and its low noise level.

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