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Valve revealed the Steam Machine and its VR cousin the Frame in November last year, but declined to share pricing and launch dates. After the company's latest missive, we may have to wait even longer to get either detail.
In a platform summary for developers, the company said that "we hope to ship in 2026," blaming the ongoing RAM crisis that has driven up memory costs across multiple device types. It's a delay after an original window of early 2026.
"We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us," the company said. "We’ll share updates publicly when we finalize our plans!"
The platform post follows a similar confirmation from February when Valve said it needed to time to "revisit" when the Steam Machine would ship and the price. Again, Valve said that the memory and storage shortage was to blame, though we were given a more optimistic first half of the year window at the time.
“Our goal of shipping all three products in the first half of the year has not changed,” Valve said in February. “But we have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of these can change.”
Meanwhile, Valve has already confirmed that availability of the Steam Deck OLED is scattershot thanks to the RAM crisis. Prices have already increased for the Steam Deck in Japan and other Asian countries and could rise in the US.
The first three months of 2026 have seen a number of gaming devices suffer as a result of RAMaggedon from Nvidia skipping gaming GPUs to potential Nintendo Switch 2 price hikes. Unfortunately, this might not get better until 2028 at the earliest.
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