Like the majority of consumer electronics in the world right now, the Steam Machine has been impacted by major corporations buying up components like RAM and SSDs in bulk because they are needed to both construct and power vast AI datacentres. You’ve also got wars, tariffs, and other non-gaming, geopolitical circumstances drastically pushing up costs. Demand has never been so high, so supply chains are now fundamentally constrained, while prices of components required to build video game consoles or construct capable gaming PCs are higher than they’ve ever been. A number of companies have also