Steam Machines: UK pricing and details

Valve has set UK pricing for the Steam Machine, its new living-room gaming PC, starting at £879 and rising to £1,208 for the top configuration.

The device launches in four UK variants. The entry model pairs a 512GB solid-state drive with a price of £879, while a £938 option bundles the new Steam Controller.

A 2TB version is priced at £1,149, rising to £1,208 with the controller included. All prices include VAT where applicable. Eligible customers can register for up to four models before the reservation window closes.

Valve has positioned the Steam Machine as an extension of PC gaming rather than a console. The company said the traditional console model of selling hardware at a loss and recovering revenue through locked-in software makes sense for a single business in the short term, but argues that open ecosystems serve customers better over time.

Technical details

Valve said that the Steam Machine offers more than six times the horsepower of the Steam Deck, giving it the capacity to run a full Steam library, including AAA titles.

The company added that the hardware delivers 4K gaming at 60 FPS using FSR upscaling. It is built around a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 six-core, twelve-thread processor running up to 4.8GHz, paired with a semi-custom AMD RDNA3 graphics processor carrying 28 compute units.

The system combines 16GB of DDR5 memory with 8GB of GDDR6 video memory.

The machine ships as a compact cube measuring roughly 160mm on each side and weighing 2.6kg, with an internal power supply rather than an external brick.

Storage is expandable through a high-speed microSD card slot on both models. Connectivity covers 2×2 Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and Gigabit ethernet, alongside DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0, a USB-C port and four USB-A ports.

A built-in wireless adapter pairs directly with the Steam Controller, supporting up to four controllers at once, and a 17-LED RGB strip displays system status such as download progress.

The Steam Machine runs SteamOS 3, Valve’s Arch-based, gaming-first operating system, using the KDE Plasma desktop.

Valve said the hardware functions as a standard PC, allowing owners to install their own applications or an alternative operating system. The company is also extending its Verified programme to cover the Steam Machine, giving customers performance ratings for individual games.

Reservation system

Valve is allocating stock through a randomised reservation system rather than a fixed on-sale moment. Customers must sign up before 25 June at 18h00 BST, after which the list is closed and randomised.

To qualify, buyers need a Steam account in good standing and must have made a purchase on Steam before 27 April 2026, with sign-ups limited to one per household.

The company said it will use the payment method, shipping address and other information to remove duplicate entries.

Reservation emails will begin going out in the week commencing 29 June, in randomised order, and are expected to continue through the remainder of the year.

Customers who receive an offer will have 72 hours to complete their purchase before the reservation passes to the next person in the queue. Those placed beyond the production run are added to a waitlist and may be moved up if earlier reservations are cancelled.

Sign-up lists are separated by shipping region, covering North America, the United Kingdom and European Union, and Australia. Valve has said the Steam Machine will not ship in South Korea, while buyers in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong are directed to its official distributor, Komodo.

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