Valve offers transparent breakdown of Steam Machine pricing amid rising hardware costs

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Every time someone from a tech company has discussed the increasing prices of hardware, they've followed a pretty similar playbook.

Vague, general references to the global memory shortage, followed by a boilerplate reason as to why the only option is to pass costs onto consumers.

It's why Valve's confirmation of the Steam Machine's pricing was so interesting; rather than give an empty, corporate-speak-filled response, as many have done before, it went into refreshing detail about the company's price strategy.