Valve has addressed the pricing for its recently announced hybrid PC, the Steam Machine
Valve has addressed the pricing for its recently announced hybrid PC, the Steam Machine.
Earlier this month, Valve revealed its new gaming hardware, including the Steam Machine, a console/PC hybrid which will be able to run PC games on a television or as a normal gaming computer. But, while we have seen what the gear looks like, Valve refrained from offering any guidance on its pricing.
Valve’s Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais have now addressed this question. Neither have disclosed an exact figure, but they have said the Steam Machine will be “more in line with what you might expect from [the] current PC market”.
The Valve duo were guests on the Friends Per Second podcast when the topic came up. “I think that if you build a PC from parts, and get to the same level of performance, that’s the general price window we aim to be at, ” Griffais said.
“Ideally, we would be pretty competitive with that, and have a pretty good deal”, he continued, adding Valve was “working on refining” the pricing.
When further asked if the Steam Machine was “going to be a subsidised device”, the Valve developer said its “more in line with what you might expect from [the] current PC market”, again saying the team wants to ensure it is a good deal for consumers in relation to its performance.
