Valve Steam Machine Pricing Appears To Leak And Yes, It’s Expensive

Recently on X/Twitter, user @Clawsomegamer spotted a preliminary listing for the Steam Machine on a Czech retailer's website. On the surface, no pricing information is displayed, but the web page's code does reveal pricing of 19,826 CZK ($950 USD) for the 512GB Steam Machine and 23,305 CZK ($1070 USD) for the 1TB version. Mind you, this price includes Czech retailer's Smarty.cz's 17% markup, which would put Valve's pricing closer to $814 USD (512 GB) and $916 USD (1 TB).

This is roughly in line with what we would expect from an equivalent PC build like our simulated Steam Machine, and prior statements that claimed the system would be priced like a PC, not a console. While pricing that high puts it well above the PS5 or Xbox, it should still prove competitive versus a similarly configurated PC, especially if Valve manages ...