Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

When Valve archetypal announced its impressive-looking Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller hardware successful November, the institution said the products would statesman shipping successful aboriginal 2026. Some journalists were told "Q1 2026" specifically. But due to the fact that of the ongoing memory and retention crunch, that motorboat has been delayed to sometime successful the archetypal fractional of this year, and Valve says it volition reset expectations for however overmuch they volition outgo "as soon arsenic possible."

"We planned connected being capable to stock circumstantial pricing and motorboat dates by now," Valve says successful a caller post. "But the representation and retention shortages you've apt heard astir crossed the manufacture ha …

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