Valve Launches Steam Machines And Steam Controllers With Steam Sale

Valve’s Steam Machines and range of Steam Hardware erupted onto store shelves with the dampest of squibs yesterday. Picking the same day we were all buying Fallout 4 / Rise of the Tomb Raider / StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void didn’t seem like the smartest of moves, but it’s all out there and you can pick it up if the urge takes you.

The full range of doodads Valve has for out comprises its own Steam Controller and Steam Link in-home streaming device, as well as a bunch of third-party PC builders’ attempts at Steam Machines. If you haven’t blown all your money on said three games above then Valve’s also running a Steam Machine Launch Sale, discounting a load of games primed to run on the new systems, most of which come preloaded with SteamOS. There’s some pretty decent games in the Steam sale as well, including Alien: Isolation, the ever-popular Ark: Survival Evolved, The Talos Principle and Dying Light, with discounts as steep as 75% to get your Steam Machine collections going.

On day one, there’s just a trio of Steam Machines going which is a lot less than we’d been lead to believe, comprising the Alienware Alpha, Zotac NEN and the Syber Steam Machine. They are all coming in varying builds and price ranges, with some fairly decent specifications there to be honest. The Syber Steam Machine X is one of the more expensive ones at £1200, but with an Intel i7-4790K CPU, 16GB memory and a GTX 980, it’s certainly comparable in price to tower pre-builds.