Skins.com reports that the first shipment of Steam Machines has arrived in the USA. In 2026. About a decade late.
Gorgocutie says:
Oh, sweet summer child. Steam Machines were Valve’s grand plan to take over your living room — a Linux-based gaming console that would free PC gaming from the tyranny of Windows. Announced in 2013. Heralded as the future of gaming. Partners like Alienware, Dell, and Gigabyte signed up to manufacture hardware.
Then they shipped in 2015. And nobody bought them. The Steam Controller was interesting. SteamOS was a buggy mess. The games library was tiny compared to Windows. By 2018, the whole thing was quietly buried under the rug while Valve went back to printing money from Steam itself.
So seeing “first shipment of Steam Machines arrives in USA” in May 2026 is like seeing a news headline that the Segway has finally taken over personal transportation. Some dreams just refuse to die, even a decade after reality said no.
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