{"id":1621291,"date":"2026-07-01T05:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cFYuAHHstchEs4zkmvEMeM"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:35:17","slug":"valve-says-the-memory-and-storage-crisis-is-so-bad-its-not-just-a-problem-of-pricing-they-had-to-negotiate-really-hard-just-to-secure-supply-for-the-steam-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valve-says-the-memory-and-storage-crisis-is-so-bad-its-not-just-a-problem-of-pricing-they-had-to-negotiate-really-hard-just-to-secure-supply-for-the-steam-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve says the memory and storage crisis is so bad, it&#8217;s not just a problem of pricing, they had to &#8216;negotiate really hard&#8217; just to secure supply for the Steam Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Y8_e3SteAgE\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Apologies for yet another downbeat post about PC component shortages. But you don&#8217;t often get insight from as significant a player\u2014and one with quite the same track record for a certain brand of transparency\u2014as Valve. It turns out the problem for the company regarding memory and storage for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/gaming-pcs\/steam-machine-review-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\">the new Steam Machine<\/a> hasn&#8217;t just been cost, but just getting hold of supply at all is a major challenge.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y8_e3SteAgE\" target=\"_blank\">Andy and Jacob&#8217;s recent interview with Valve&#8217;s Steam Machine reps Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat<\/a>, may I suggest you get that done pronto, it&#8217;s well worth a watch. But among other takeaways from the chat is insight into just how acute the memory and storage supply crisis has become.<\/p>\n<p>You might have thought that it&#8217;s just a pricing issue. In other words, paying more fixes the problem. But apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things that were a year ago, two years ago, commodity things,&#8221; Griffais explains, &#8220;you&#8217;d just pay the normal price for it and it&#8217;s all good, now you have to negotiate really hard just to secure a few thousand. And there&#8217;s so many more people in line in front of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Griffais says Valve saw evidence of this problem before it fully impacted retail memory and SSD prices. &#8220;Most people have started to see this in the past six months. But we&#8217;ve been dealing with it for eight months to a year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:4032px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"E35C6vccLJupLzssCdzcM5\" name=\"20260622_120430\" alt=\"A Steam Machine with a red faceplate attached, in front of a TV\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/valve-says-the-memory-and-storage-crisis-is-so-bad-its-not-just-a-problem-of-pricing-they-had-to-negotiate-really-hard-just-to-secure-supply-for-the-steam-machine.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">The Steam Machine is a lovely little thing. But it&#8217;s very hard to justify at $1,049. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Compared to the retail channel, we see \u2014we&#8217;re talking directly to suppliers of things that will get built and then will get put on shelves, and so we&#8217;ve had to deal with it a little bit ahead of everyone else in the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really weird climate right now for memory and storage,&#8221; Griffais concludes. Indeed. Somehow, Valve still managed to build up sufficient stock to get the Steam Machine launched. But as we&#8217;ve already covered, it was touch and go for a bit. At the beginning of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/steam-machines\/valve-wasnt-sure-it-was-gonna-have-any-steam-machines-to-sell-at-the-start-of-2026-things-looked-really-dire\/\" target=\"_blank\">it wasn&#8217;t clear that they would have any Steam Machines to sell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, the Steam Machine has launched, but at that painful $1,049 price. You have to assume Valve would have loved to have pushed the Machine under $1,000, just for the optics of a three-digit sticker. So the fact that they went with the uglier $1,049 figure probably speaks volumes about just how tight the whole thing was.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly, it&#8217;s all a bit of a pity. But until, and indeed if, the memory and storage market returns to something resembling normality, there&#8217;s little to be done. We just have to suck it up. And maybe pay even more attention to saving money on the best deals for other components. May I suggest monitors? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/cheap-gaming-monitor-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">There are at least some stellar deals on those of late.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/valve-says-the-memory-and-storage-crisis-is-so-bad-its-not-just-a-problem-of-pricing-they-had-to-negotiate-really-hard-just-to-secure-supply-for-the-steam-machine\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for yet another downbeat post about PC component shortages. But you don&#8217;t often get insight from as significant a player\u2014and one with quite the same track record for a certain brand of transparency\u2014as Valve. It turns out the problem for the company regarding memory and storage for the new Steam Machine hasn&#8217;t just been cost, but just getting hold of supply at all is a major challenge. 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