Valve confirms why it launched the Steam Controller before the Steam Machine: it doesn't have RAM

TweakTown | 29.04.2026 03:30
It almost seems like all the problems in the PC hardware space nowadays are somehow linked to the global DRAM shortage. Every other day, another component becomes more expensive due to the crippling supply-demand mismatch in both DRAM and CPU chips. The AI boom and its resulting global memory crisis seem to have taken another victim, this time being Valve's Steam Machine.