Valve updated their article about when the Steam Machine/Controller/Frame will ship.
Previous message:
We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us. We’ll share updates publicly when we finalize our plans!
New message:
We shared recently that there have been challenges with memory and storage shortages, but we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalize our plans.
If they sell it BYO RAM, I can swap the RAM from my other PC into this when I want to play. That’s the new video game meta: swapping RAM between computers because it’s too expensive to have dedicated RAM.
The future of gaming is this. Move the Memory Pak®️ around into whatever system you’re currently using.
Anybody having config issues on their high end machines with super fast on-die unified memory are going to be the new “waaah, my Ferrari has a flat tire” gang, lol.