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Valve's Steam Machine To Feature PC-Aligned Pricing Strategy, Diverging From Console Norms

Valve has announced that the Steam Machine will adopt a pricing strategy similar to that of a PC, rather than a console. The price remains undisclosed, as Valve is still finalising details. This ...
Ars Technica

Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” ...
Yardbarker

Steam Machine Pricing Explained: Why It Won’t Follow Console Rules

Valve is back in the hardware spotlight, and this time it’s not chasing consoles—it’s carving out its own lane. The upcoming Steam Machine isn’t being subsidized like a PlayStation or Xbox, and that ...
TechSpot

Valve confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, not a console

Crystal ball: With Valve positioning the Steam Machine as a competitor to the current-gen consoles, many expected it to be priced as such – i.e., around or under $500. But a Valve engineer has ...
Wired

Valve Says Steam Machine Isn’t a Console—but It Is

The recent announcement from Valve of a new slate of hardware products has excited players, but while a revamped Steam Controller and an updated virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, have drawn ...
BusinessMirror

Steam unveils machine to compete in console wars

The console wars started by Nintendo and SEGA as a marketing ploy, and now being lived through by two competing companies, Xbox and Playstation, has gained a new challenger: Steam. The joke throughout ...
IGN

Don't Expect the Steam Machine Price to Follow a 'Console Pricing Model' of $500

Related reads:Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' Valve’s announcement of the Steam Machine has sparked much debate ...
Metro

Steam Machine is going to be more expensive than a console says Valve

Valve has not only said that they won’t be making a loss on Steam Machine but that its price will be more in line with a PC than a console. The announcement that Valve is going to give the Steam ...
IGN

Don't Expect the Steam Machine Price to Follow a 'Console Pricing Model' of $500

Valve’s announcement of the Steam Machine has sparked much debate online about the company’s return to the PC in the living room space, but one key piece of information remains unknown: price. The ...
Game Rant

Rumor: The Steam Machine Will Be Priced 'Like a PC,' Not a Console

Aaron McKinley is a writer, blogger and video game enthusiast with over five years of experience in web content and many more in playing games until the wee hours of the morning. His work spans many ...
eTeknix

Analysts Call Steam Machine a Console That Won’t Admit It’s a Console

Joost van Dreunen, professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and former CEO of the gaming market research firm SuperData Research, believes that the Steam Machine is “a console that refuses to ...