TL;DR
- Valve has announced that PC gamers will be able to build their own Steam Machine following the release of SteamOS 3.8.
- This serves as a viable alternative to gamers who don’t want to shell out $1,049+ for the Steam Machine.
- The company also says a “growing team” is working to bring NVIDIA driver support to SteamOS.
The Steam Machine is the hot commodity in the gaming right now, with Valve opening up reservations this week. If you were turned off by that steep starting price of $1,049 or simply didn’t want to go through the reservation process, there’s now some good news coming from Valve.
Valve has just confirmed to The Verge that, beginning with SteamOS 3.8, which landed last week, gamers will be able to build their own version of the Steam Machine “using whatever PC parts” they want.
