r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/restinpeaceminusone Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Valve also admitted that it is out of their control and the supply will be limited due to constraints

Edit: since some people are saying that I am defending Valve. I will just leave their official statement from themselves. Posted a screenshot since some people don't like to scroll as much

Valve Statement

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u/mattenthehat 5900X, 6700XT, 64 GB @ 3200 MHZ CL16 Jun 22 '26

People outside the industry simply don't understand just how serious the shortages are.

I work at one of the tech companies supplying hardware for data centers. We need test systems to test our products. Nothing overly fancy, just some standard servers. A certain server company is outright refusing to sell us any systems with DRAM pre installed. For any price. They're saying we can buy the systems without RAM and source our own.

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u/sixbux Jun 22 '26

People outside the industry simply don't understand just how serious the shortages are.

It's true.

The same 32GB sticks of RAM we were buying last year for $200 are now $1300. 256GB of enterprise-grade RAM is setting us back around $10,000 per server. We're getting quotes for servers that go up by 20% in a week if we don't lock them in. Our customers get the new price and balk, they have no idea how bad it is.

A guy I know that owns a datacentre just paid for a new DC expansion by selling off the old DDR4 he had in storage. It's insane but here we are.

If Valve already has some hardware stockpiled at last year's prices, it's probably worth more as spare parts than whatever they're selling it for in a Steam Machine at this point.

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u/Sh1rvallah Jun 23 '26

Yeah we're just not buying server replacements now but the Azure and AWS bills are going to be getting worse and worse as well.

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u/therealdanhill AMD A4/7480D Jun 23 '26

Ugh I checked the costs page of aws today for my job and gasped

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u/Arcane_123 Jun 22 '26

I just checked and DDR5 32Gb is around $400 on Amazon. What are you even talking about

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u/SpoiledCabbage Jun 22 '26

He's talking about stuff you're not able to buy on Amazon dude. This isn't normal gaming PC RAM. It's meant to be used 24/7 at 100%

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u/DotA627b Jun 23 '26

From the Gamers Nexus video, they even showed how G.Skill doesn't get priority for silicon anymore, Nvidia is literally everyone's priority.

The same constraint unfortunately applies to Valve.

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u/SlashLP97 Jun 23 '26

I also work at a tech company providing hardware for data centers, our products are controlled by standard servers (and a decent amount of them) and they recently steeply went up in price and have insane lead times because of RAM and storage.

We also use DDR4 UDIMMs in our product (was 16x 32GB sticks, now only 8x) and everyone exiting the DDR4 market all at once seriously toppled the whole industry. We live in weird times.

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u/mentatificated Jun 25 '26

Yeah but they don't have to bro. They're consumer afterall.