Steam Machine Price and Release Date: $1,049, Out June 30

Valve has set a price and a release date for the Steam Machine, its living-room gaming PC. The base model costs $1,049 and the system launches June 30, the company said, with sign-ups for a chance to pre-order opening June 22.

The Steam Machine comes in two storage configurations. The 512GB model costs $1,049 without a controller, and the 2TB model costs $1,349. A bundle pairing the 2TB machine with Valve’s new Steam Controller runs $1,428, according to Valve’s pricing.

Pre-orders open June 25, and Valve is rationing them. Players can register interest beginning June 22, and the company will randomly select a portion of those who sign up to place an order, limited to one per household, Valve said. Eligibility requires a Steam purchase made before April 27. All hardware ships starting June 30.

What the Steam Machine is

The Steam Machine is a roughly six-inch cube that runs SteamOS, the Linux-based system Valve built for the Steam Deck. It uses a semi-custom AMD processor, with a six-core, twelve-thread Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA 3 graphics chip carrying 28 compute units, paired with 16GB of system memory and 8GB of dedicated video memory, Valve’s specifications show. The company says it targets 4K output with FSR upscaling and reaches up to six times the graphics performance of the Steam Deck.

Close-up of the Steam Machine's front edge, showing two USB-A ports, a microSD card slot, a status light, a power dial, and a glowing blue light strip. — A close-up of the Steam Machine’s front I/O and status light. Image: Valve

The price lands above what some buyers expected for a SteamOS console. Reporting around the launch tied the cost in part to a sharp rise in memory prices, with DRAM contract prices up more than 170% year over year, as XDA noted.

SteamOS reaches beyond Valve’s own hardware

Valve has been preparing the software in public. On June 17 it released SteamOS 3.8.10, the stable build of the 3.8 branch, which adds initial support for the Steam Machine and broadens the system to third-party PC handhelds, Valve said. The update lists compatibility for devices including the ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go 2, alongside handhelds from MSI, GPD, and others, and it moves Desktop Mode to KDE Plasma 6.4.3 while switching to the Wayland display system by default.

Valve's 2026 SteamOS hardware lineup laid out together: the Steam Frame VR headset and its two controllers, the Steam Deck handheld, the cube-shaped Steam Machine, and the Steam Controller. — Valve’s 2026 SteamOS lineup: the Steam Frame headset and controllers, the Steam Deck, the Steam Machine, and the Steam Controller. Image: Valve

The Steam Machine is one of three new Valve devices. The Steam Controller, a wireless gamepad, launched May 4 at $99. The Steam Frame, a SteamOS virtual-reality headset, is set to ship this summer, though Valve has not given it a price or a release date.

Top-down view of Valve's black Steam Controller, with a d-pad, four face buttons, two thumbsticks, and two square trackpads. — The Steam Controller, which launched in May at $99. Image: Valve

The cube is Valve’s first dedicated living-room PC since the original Steam Machines, a line of third-party SteamOS boxes the company stepped back from in the 2010s. This time Valve is building and selling the hardware itself, positioning the Steam Machine as a fixed counterpart to the portable Steam Deck. Sign-ups begin June 22 ahead of the June 30 launch.