Wednesday, June 24th 2026
Steam Machine Sells Out in Japan Despite Woeful Pricing
As was the case with the Steam Deck, Valve is selling the Steam Machine via Komodo Station, an Asian reseller that serves much of South-East Asia, and as a result, it skips the reservation and lottery system that is currently in place on Valve's own Steam Store. While this doesn't combat issues like scalping and shortages as well as Steam's in-house system, it provides a much more realistic indication of current stock levels. According to Komodo Store, however, all versions of the Valve Steam Machine have officially sold out less than 48 hours after the new hardware launched.
In Japan, the Steam Machine starts at $1,175 for the 512 GB model and goes up from there to ~$1,638 for the 2 TB model with two Steam Controllers and two additional faceplates. It remains to be seen how well the console will sell in the west when it officially starts shipping on June 25, however, since the price is quite high, especially compared to consoles like the PS5 Pro and similar small-form-factor PCs. As far as sentiment goes, there appears to be a divide forming in online spaces, like r/steammachine on Reddit, where some are saying the convenience of not having to set up any hardware is worth the price trade-off. The Steam Machine was seemingly meant to cost around 30% less initially, but it's unclear if or when it will come down to that price, which will only be possible if the RAM crisis comes to an end and hardware prices ease.
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Komodo Station
In Japan, the Steam Machine starts at $1,175 for the 512 GB model and goes up from there to ~$1,638 for the 2 TB model with two Steam Controllers and two additional faceplates. It remains to be seen how well the console will sell in the west when it officially starts shipping on June 25, however, since the price is quite high, especially compared to consoles like the PS5 Pro and similar small-form-factor PCs. As far as sentiment goes, there appears to be a divide forming in online spaces, like r/steammachine on Reddit, where some are saying the convenience of not having to set up any hardware is worth the price trade-off. The Steam Machine was seemingly meant to cost around 30% less initially, but it's unclear if or when it will come down to that price, which will only be possible if the RAM crisis comes to an end and hardware prices ease.
36 Comments on Steam Machine Sells Out in Japan Despite Woeful Pricing
I mean, there was 1 laptop with Core Ultra 388H at stock in local retailer. Guess what. Sold out.
How many people do you think are buying PCs from scratch nowadays? PCs not laptopsedition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/tech/tokyo-nvidia-gaming-chips-buy-frenzy-chaos-intl-hnk
www.techpowerup.com/336150/japanese-retailers-attempt-to-block-tourism-purchases-of-geforce-rtx-5090-5080-cards
Conclusion people: Learn some <Self-Control> buy only when something is needed and not wanted, there is a difference. If everyone learns to not support these kind "people" and their businesses, the sooner they will realize they are sitting with paperweights until they sell them for what sane and normal people buy them at.
I doubt many have any patience these days. I added a secondary monitor and than hardcoded the monitor resolution and orientation etc. the xorg-server still is not fail proof and fails, never tries to boot.
Also the identifier vs what is used seems a bug or not documented feature.
I'm sure these days I would not bother with any linux kernel related stuff, if I did not had any preknowledge from the past. I see it as doing something else, puzzle, problem solving exercise.
Android is much more ready to use. The steam box, I assume will be also more ready to use to the end consumer.
-- I was the second time wrong. It sold. Still early adopter sales vs long term sales. If it is really a good product will show in a few months if there are units available or not compared with the units already sold.
edit: I wonder if Steam will trigger another technology sale product. Many copied those small steam handhelds. Will we see steam pc boxes which ships with steam from other brands?
These are for people that want to press a button and have a working console, not PC users.
Hell, even Nintendo has restricted the sales of non-Japanese language Switch consoles in Japan to thwart scalpers and grey market importers from draining inventory. Nothing new here.
In fact, it looks like Valve didn't run Nintendo's playbook. They just let the scalpers walk in and scoop everything up.
Steam Machine inventory is allocated regionally. Valve is going to have to refine their sales procedure if this happens repeatedly.
And now that it's sold out in Japan, scalpers will move to other markets.