Brad Lynch<\/a> took to Twitter\/X to share some Internal pricing targets he\u2019s been told for Valve Corporation\u2019s upcoming products, including the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, both before and after the ongoing RAM shortage.<\/p>\n ![\"Steam](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/steam-machine-1-scaled.jpg\")
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According to Lynch, the Steam Machine has received the most substantial price hike, while the Steam Frame is \u201cnot as bad.\u201d He refrained from sharing specifics, saying that if he felt comfortable mentioning them publicly, he definitely would have. He also thinks we\u2019ll be hearing about official prices very soon. It\u2019s worth remembering Valve Corporation has yet to reveal official prices for both the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame, so any pricing revisions that occur are the company\u2019s internal affair.<\/p>\n
On the Steam Frame not receiving a price hike as substantial as the Steam Machine, the XR specialist speculated that it may be due to mobile LPDDR RAM prices not being affected as much as mainstream RAM. As for whether the VR headset will be considered expensive, he said that it depends on people\u2019s perception of what VR hardware should cost. According to him, it was never meant to receive Meta Quest-level pricing to begin with. His personal opinion is that if someone had asked him which device would cost more prior to the RAM shortage, he would have picked the Steam Frame. However, with the RAM shortage in effect, he implied that he\u2019d pick the Steam Machine.<\/p>\n
Last month,\u00a0in a message<\/a> published on Steam as part of the company\u2019s Year in Review discussion, Valve Corporation acknowledged that supply issues have created complications for its new devices.\u00a0\u201cWe shared recently that there have been challenges with memory and storage shortages, but we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalize our plans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 Steam Machine has received a major internal price hike that may have made more expensive that a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[260],"tags":[18,19,17,100303,101184,82,286,287,288],"class_list":["post-460895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-steam-frame","tag-steam-machine","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116492053584459893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}