Steam Machine is a small gaming PC from Valve that runs SteamOS and sits under your TV or on your desk. Sign in to Steam and your whole library is there. On Steam it costs €1,039 for the 512GB model up to €1,428 for 2TB with a Steam Controller, prices including VAT. It is sold only through Steam, and anyone signing up now goes to the back of the waitlist. Valve has promised that everyone in the reservation queue will get the option to buy by the end of 2026. It has not given any date for the waitlist. Status as of 12 November 2026.
What Steam Machine is: a PC, not a console
Valve announced it on 12 November 2025 together with the new Steam Controller and the Steam Frame VR headset. All three are meant to work with each other and with Steam Deck, and to stay open platforms.
Valve itself calls Steam Machine a “gaming PC console” for the living room or the desk. Inside it is a gaming PC; on screen you get SteamOS with a console-style interface. Asked whether this is the Valve console, the company says it is an extension of PC gaming rather than a console. Traditional consoles, Valve explains, are sold at a loss that gets made back through subscriptions or games locked to one piece of hardware. Valve is betting on an open ecosystem instead.
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Valve sells its hardware where it sells Steam Deck: the US, Canada, the UK, the EU and Australia. In Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong the official distributor is KOMODO. Steam Machine does not ship to South Korea.
Price: four options
These are the launch prices Valve announced on 22 June 2026; the euro prices are what the Steam store shows on 12 November 2026.
| Model | EUR | GBP | USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| 512GB | €1,039 | £879 | $1,049 |
| 512GB + Steam Controller | €1,108 | £938 | $1,128 |
| 2TB | €1,359 | £1,149 | $1,349 |
| 2TB + Steam Controller | €1,428 | £1,208 | $1,428 |
The Steam Controller costs €99 on its own; in the bundle it adds €69. Polish prices, what the 2TB box adds and why Valve priced it this way are in our price guide.
How to buy: reservations and the waitlist
To keep bots and fast clickers from winning, sign-ups ran from 22 to 25 June 2026, followed by a one-time random draw. People who landed in the reservation queue have a unit set aside for them. When it is ready, they get an email and have 72 hours to buy. Everyone else went onto the waitlist.
If you sign up today, you go straight to the back of the waitlist. On 12 November 2026 the store page offers only a waitlist sign-up for all four models, with a note that you will be notified if units become available. On 28 July 2026 Valve promised that everyone in the reservation queue will get the option to buy by the end of 2026. It made no such promise for the waitlist. The full process is in our guide on how to buy.
Specs at a glance
- CPU: semi-custom AMD Zen 4, 6 cores and 12 threads, up to 4.8GHz.
- GPU: semi-custom AMD RDNA 3 with 28 CUs.
- Memory: 16GB DDR5 plus 8GB GDDR6 for graphics.
- Storage: 512GB or 2TB NVMe SSD, with a microSD slot on the front.
- OS: SteamOS 3, based on Arch Linux, with a KDE Plasma desktop.
- Size: a cube of roughly 16cm per side, weighing 2.6kg.
Valve says Steam Machine has over six times the horsepower of Steam Deck. Ports and dimensions are in the full Steam Machine specs. It runs the same SteamOS as Steam Deck, and we track the latest SteamOS version separately.
Which games run on it
The first time you sign in, every game you own on Steam shows up in your library. You can filter it by Steam Machine compatibility.
Valve tests games for Steam Machine separately, just as it does for Steam Deck. There are four ratings: Verified, Playable, Unsupported and Unknown. Verified on Steam Machine means, among other things, full Steam Controller support and a playable 30 FPS at 1080p on default settings. 1080p is also the default game resolution. Every game that is Verified for Steam Deck is guaranteed to be Verified for Steam Machine too, though not the other way round. More in our guide to Verified games.
Steam Machine or Steam Deck?
Both run SteamOS 3 with the same interface. The differences are performance and how you play.
- Steam Deck has a 4-core Zen 2 CPU, an 8 CU RDNA 2 GPU and 16GB of shared LPDDR5. Steam Machine has a 6-core Zen 4, a 28 CU RDNA 3 GPU, 16GB DDR5 and a separate 8GB of GDDR6.
- Since 27 May 2026, Steam Deck OLED costs €779 (512GB) and €919 (1TB) in Europe. Steam Machine starts at €1,039 without a controller.
- Deck has its own screen and battery. Steam Machine needs a TV or monitor, plus a controller or a mouse and keyboard.
The detailed breakdown is in Machine vs Deck. Everything about the handheld is in our Steam Deck guides.
Steam Controller and Valve’s other hardware
The new Steam Controller costs €99 on Steam. Steam Machine has the wireless adapter for it built in, so you do not need the Puck that the controller uses to connect to other devices. What the controller can do and how its reservations work is covered in our Steam Controller guide.
The third new device is the Steam Frame VR headset, which costs €1,049 (256GB) and €1,279 (1TB) on Steam.
Once your Steam Machine arrives, start with the first-time setup. If you want a different operating system, see Windows on Machine. And if it will not boot or you get no picture, try our troubleshooting guide.
Join our Discord to ask who in the community already has a Steam Machine and who is still waiting for the email: Discord GamersTogether.
FAQ
Valve says no. It is a small gaming PC with SteamOS and a console-style interface, which Valve describes as an extension of PC gaming built on an open ecosystem.
As of 12 November 2026, from €1,039 / £879 / $1,049 for 512GB to €1,428 / £1,208 / $1,428 for 2TB with a Steam Controller.
Directly on Steam. As of 12 November 2026 the store only offers a waitlist sign-up.
Valve does not say. New sign-ups go to the back of the waitlist. The promise of a purchase option by the end of 2026 applies only to the reservation queue.
Your whole library shows up. How well a specific game runs is indicated by its Steam Machine rating: Verified, Playable, Unsupported or Unknown. Games Verified for Steam Deck are automatically Verified for Steam Machine.
Information verified on 12 November 2026. We keep prices and the waitlist status up to date. More guides are in our Steam Machine section.