Leak Suggests There Will Be Four Different Ways To Buy A Steam Machine, Along With Scalper Protection
Kotaku | 11.05.2026 17:15
Valve’s grim experience with the launch of the Steam Controller, where scalpers scooped up so many of the devices that they sold out in under 30 minutes, led it to announce an improved system of upcoming restocks. But that change also inadvertently alerted canny code-scourers to details about the sale of Valve’s unreleased Steam Machine. Via WCCF Tech, they discovered that the new SteamOS mini-PC will seemingly come in four different SKUs at launch, with some extra protections in place to try to prevent scalpers from ruining pre-orders for everyone.
