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Steam Machine review: A singular living room PC that's more expensive than I'd like, but too special not to love
The Steam Machine is pricey, but it's still a decent games device and, more importantly, a singularly suitable PC for living room duty. Here's our full review.
The Steam Machine is Valve's new piece of hardware entering the scene as a mini PC built for living room gaming. I love a lot about it, had some issues with it, but overall came away from my time with it feeling very positive.
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Everything you need to know about the Steam Machine from Valve, including the release date, price and specs for both the Steam Machine and new Controller.
IGN: The Steam Machine came in at a higher price than originally intended, but it's still about the same price as a comparable tower PC, whereas normally mini gaming PCs have a pretty huge price jump. How did Valve keep the price from getting even higher?
So, the Valve Steam Machine is real. Except that should really be the Steam Machine 2.0, as this is Valve's second big attempt at a console-like PC games machine. All the way back in 2013, it first revealed its Steam Machine concept to great confusion.
