{"id":280657,"date":"2026-06-24T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/5-things-you-need-to-know-before-buying-a-steam-machine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:50:07","slug":"5-things-you-need-to-know-before-buying-a-steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/5-things-you-need-to-know-before-buying-a-steam-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2200735\/before-you-buy-steam-machine\/\">5 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Steam Machine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2200735\/before-you-buy-steam-machine\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2200735\/before-you-buy-steam-machine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 12:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valve&#8217;s Steam Machine is the company&#8217;s latest major hardware launch since the Steam Deck handheld\u00a0in 2022. There are a lot of caveats to Valve&#8217;s small-form-factor PC, much like the Deck, but its\u00a0pricing\u00a0altered the entire conversation around it. Valve has made it clear that it had no way to reduce the PC&#8217;s price tag, which starts at $1,049 for 512GB of storage and no controller. The company is\u00a0at the mercy of the RAM and SSD pricing crisis\u00a0caused\u00a0by the high demand for AI data centers.<\/p>\n<p>The Steam Machine could have been a solid entry-level PC for a lot of people. In benchmark testing, the system fails to live up to big-budget PCs, and its performance is\u00a0comparable to PCs with low-end graphics cards like the Nvidia RTX 5050. If the Steam\u00a0Machine had been sold at its originally envisioned price of $750, it would have been a much easier pill to swallow. Today, it&#8217;s a system you almost\u00a0have to be briefed on before diving in.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not including the fact that it ships with SteamOS, a Linux distribution built on top of Arch Linux. This is its own kettle of fish, and something you&#8217;ll need to bear in mind depending on the games you enjoy. It&#8217;s also just a PC at the end of the day, so that comes with its own learning curve if you&#8217;ve never stepped foot into the world of PC gaming before.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">The price is, indeed, whack<\/h2>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Jacob Wackerhausen\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>               &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2200735\/before-you-buy-steam-machine\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Things You Need To Know Before Buying A Steam Machine https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2200735\/before-you-buy-steam-machine\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/5-things-you-need-to-know-before-buying-a-steam-machine\/l-intro-1782316949.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-280657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280660,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280657\/revisions\/280660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}