If the price turns out to be too high, there may be difficulties with the sale of the new device.
Valve recently introduced the Steam Machine, but did not disclose the cost of the device at the time. Now, company employees have outlined a conditional "price range" that they are focusing on.
Programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais and one of the Steam Deck designers, Lawrence Yang, participated in a podcast by the author of the YouTube channel Skill Up, and during the conversation they were asked about the cost of the device:
I think that if you assemble a PC from components with performance comparable to the level of [Steam Machine], then this will be the price range that we are focusing on. Ideally, we would like to be competitive and offer a good [value for money...]. It is very difficult to say exactly what the price will be now, because it is influenced by many external factors.
Previously, the cost of parts for assembling a Steam Machine was estimated at $425, i.e. the final price of the device may be $450-500.
Blogger Linus Tech Tips suggests that the price will still be higher, at the level of $600-700.
There is also an opinion that the cost of the device may reach $800.
