The Steam Machine Is Sold Out, Overpriced, Can't Quite Do 4K – and Now Scalpers Are Asking $3,000 for It
Listings on eBay have reached $3,200 as Valve sends reservation emails, and one $2,800 sale suggests buyers may be paying far above retail.
- Valve officially priced the Steam Machine at $1,049 for the 512GB model, with the 2TB version at $1,349, while warning that a price drop will not arrive "any time soon."
- High component costs for RAM and SSD hardware forced Valve to launch at a premium price, as the company refuses to subsidize the device for consumers.
- On Ebay One, resellers have listed the $1,128 bundle for as much as $3,200, though it remains too soon to judge whether Valve's anti-scalping efforts will curb this activity.
- Engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat stated Valve would "love to make" the device affordable, though Aldehayyat cautioned "I don't want to promise to people that it's coming soon."
- Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects the AI-driven RAM shortage to persist through 2027, as the memory company locked in historically high prices for five years.
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The Steam Machine is sold out, overpriced, can't quite do 4K – and now scalpers are asking $3,000 for it
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'The Cheaper the Better' — Valve 'Would Love' a 'More Affordable' Steam Machine But Warns Changes Aren't Coming 'Any time Soon'
As players come to grips with the $1,049 price of the Steam Machine, Valve has said it would "love to make" it more affordable, while warning that a price drop won't arrive "any time soon."Engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat opened up about the Steam company's hardware strategy during an interview with Digital Foundry. Their words arrive amid shortages for components like RAM and skyrocketing costs for gaming consoles and PCs acro…
Steam Machine Reservations Are Being Sold On eBay At Scalper Prices
Reservations for Valve Corporation’s new living room PC, the Steam Machine, are being sold on eBay at scalper prices. The Steam Machine is already being sold at scalper prices on eBay, despite currently being in the reservation phase. Those with confirmed reservations are asking buyers to pay around twice the original price of the relevant model.The 512GB variant is being sold for around 2,000 US Dollars and the 2TB model is selling for around 2…
Valve announced the Steam Machine at the worst moment, because it just coincided with the price hikes of memory. It could have been saved if it had been launched immediately, in autumn 2025, but in the end that was not possible and its launch was in May 2026 and we have already seen the disaster. For 1,039 euros, it is clear that the Steam Machine does not generate the same interest it did when Valve said it would cost as an equivalent PC, which…
Steam Machine scalping hits $3,000 on eBay as sellers list preorder reservations — scalpers already flipping queues for 2X the MSRP of the 2TB model
Despite Valve's efforts to prevent scalpers from taking advantage of the Steam Machine's limited supply, there are still a few opportunists out there who are taking the risk of selling the pre-order slot that they have won. A quick search for "Steam Machine" on eBay would pull up results for pre-order slots sold at a significant premium above Valve's own $1,049 retail price. We see various listings for the 512GB version selling between $1,363.70…
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