Valve prices the Steam machine at $1,049

After months of waiting, Valve has finally announced the Steam Machine, its new living room PC. It will start at $1,049 It goes on sale starting June 29.

You can now register your interest in purchasing a Steam Machine as part of the booking system. To provide a fair playing field for people who want to purchase one, Valve will randomize it to everyone in the waiting list on Thursday at 1 PM ET. After that, anyone who registers their interest will be added to the end of the waiting list. The first emails giving people the opportunity to purchase will be released on June 29.

Valve will sell four Steam Machine configurations:

The 2TB configurations will also come with two interchangeable boards, “red fabric” and “solid walnut,” in addition to the standard black board.

The Steam Machine is significantly more expensive than the consoles it arguably competes with: the PS5 Digital costs $599.99, the Xbox Series (And this is after they all got a price hike.) Steam Machine also isn’t helpfully improved on these options; Based on a review by my colleague Sean Hollisterthe Steam Machine’s performance is roughly equivalent to that of the PS5, but nearly six years after the PS5 first launched.

However, the value proposition of the Steam Machine is that it can run your library of Steam games that you may have accumulated over years (or even decades), rather than just PlayStation games, and it’s a full Linux PC that you can customize to your heart’s content. Valve also says it’s selling the Steam Machine for the cost of its components alone rather than subsidizing the price.

The price of the Steam Machine has been one of the biggest questions about the new hardware since it was announced. Valve lets us spend hours with the Steam Machine, the new Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR headset In late 2025, we walked away impressed. At the time of the hands-on, Valve said it would start shipping the new tools in early 2026. However In Februarythe company announced that the ongoing memory and storage crisis forced it to reconsider its pricing and shipping plans. In March, Valve said In a blog post It will “ship all three products this year.”

Valve still hasn’t shared specific pricing or release details for the Steam framework.