Valve has officially revealed pricing and availability details for the Steam Machine, its new living room-focused gaming PC, with pre-orders opening ahead of a June 29 launch.
The fandom is insane for valve though. The steam controller is still flying off of ebay shelves at $300 a pop from scalpers doing their thing still. Prices are depressing though, i’m not going to lie. I predicted $1200 with no more than a $20 bundle savings for the controller and well, doesn’t look like i’m too far off.
If you get a model with a controller you’re effectively getting like $200 off after ebay sales fees if you sell it. The deck sold out quickly at $949, so i’m sure this will sell too, and that means someone who picks up the $1128 512GB model with controller will be in for less than 1k with a little work.
These will probably scalp for ~$2500 (2tb+controller) even if it makes absolutely no sense at that price. It’s just how consumer electronic releases are from certain brands like valve or nvidia now as Day 1 scalping seems to be a hair under double for stuff like this. I don’t think the market will bear much more than that, and not for very long anyway.
Basically, expect it to all sell out and for scalpers to have another pay day like they always do.
The fandom is insane for valve though. The steam controller is still flying off of ebay shelves at $300 a pop from scalpers doing their thing still. Prices are depressing though, i’m not going to lie. I predicted $1200 with no more than a $20 bundle savings for the controller and well, doesn’t look like i’m too far off.
If you get a model with a controller you’re effectively getting like $200 off after ebay sales fees if you sell it. The deck sold out quickly at $949, so i’m sure this will sell too, and that means someone who picks up the $1128 512GB model with controller will be in for less than 1k with a little work.
These will probably scalp for ~$2500 (2tb+controller) even if it makes absolutely no sense at that price. It’s just how consumer electronic releases are from certain brands like valve or nvidia now as Day 1 scalping seems to be a hair under double for stuff like this. I don’t think the market will bear much more than that, and not for very long anyway.
Basically, expect it to all sell out and for scalpers to have another pay day like they always do.