Key Points
- Valve's Steam Machine launches June 30, 2026, starting at $1,049 for 512GB.
- A 2TB model runs $1,349, or $1,428 bundled with a controller.
- Reservations are open through June 25 at 10 a.m. PT.
- It runs SteamOS on AMD Zen 4 and RDNA 3 silicon, targeting 4K 60fps.
Valve has put a price and a date on its second attempt at the living room. The Steam Machine, a compact gaming PC that runs the company's SteamOS, launches June 30, 2026, starting at $1,049 for the 512GB model. A 2TB version costs $1,349, and a bundle that adds the Steam Controller runs $1,428. Reservations are open now and close June 25 at 10 a.m. PT.
The specs
The Steam Machine is a roughly six-inch black cube built on semi-custom AMD parts: a six-core Zen 4 CPU clocked up to 4.8GHz and an RDNA 3 GPU paired with 16GB of system memory and 8GB of dedicated GDDR6 graphics memory. Valve says the box delivers about six times the performance of the Steam Deck and targets 4K at 60 frames per second on most Steam titles using AMD's FSR upscaling. SteamOS 3 ships preinstalled; the machine can be wiped for Windows 11 for anyone who wants it.
Why this attempt is different
Valve already tried this once. The original Steam Machines, a fleet of third-party boxes launched in 2015, died quietly because SteamOS could not run the Windows games people actually owned, and buyers were not going to trade their libraries for a worse PC. The difference in 2026 is Proton — the compatibility layer Valve built to make the Steam Deck work — which has spent four years turning "Linux can't run my games" into a mostly solved problem. This time the hardware launches into an operating system that already runs tens of thousands of titles, which is the reason the second try has a chance the first one never did.
The pricing tells you who it is for. At $1,049, the Steam Machine is not competing with the $499 PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X on price; it is competing with the prebuilt gaming PC, and it lands in a crowded hardware summer. Grand Theft Auto VI preorders open June 25, the same day Steam Machine reservations close, and Valve is betting that a console-simple box that plays a full PC library is worth a premium over a sealed console. It is a smaller ask than Snap's $2,195 Specs, and a more familiar one.
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