Steam Machine might release sooner than expected – Valve receives massive shipment of "game consoles"
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As the Steam Controller sells out in minutes, Valve could be ready to follow it up with the release we've all been waiting for

This is in addition to the other 50 T of “game consoles” imported in the last couple months that did not result in restocking of Steam Deck.

That’s somewhere between 10k-30k units. The steam controller at launch had about 15k-30k units that sold out in 30 min, but it was at least 5-10x cheaper than Steam Frame/Machine will be, so perhaps the window to buy right at launch will be a bit longer if they go live with current volumes.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Honestly, it feels like if this was Steam Machines, valve would have waited and released them bundled with the controller. I’m assuming them launching the controller by itself was because they didn’t have Steam Machines ready to go yet.

    So I’m assuming this means this is more likely to be the Steam Frame or Steam Deck, but we’ll see.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      I think they’re literally just shoving shit out the door as fast as they can, and their initial production runs were … kind of done in the middle of rampocalypse/tariff nonsense, round #(i forget).

      Because you’d have to be an idiot to not realize the world economy is headed for a Great Depression, therefore they need to make money ASAP on hardware, before people’s budgets contract dramatically.

      I also think they seem have to have just genuienly underestimated demand.

      I don’t think we’ll be seeing newly made Steam Decks soon, iirc, they retooled the actual Steam Deck facility … to make the Steam Controllers.

      Probably more likely to see the Steam Machine and Frame, and then a Steam Deck 2 at some point in the future, presuming we do not at that point live in the Fallout timeline.