The startup screen and animation for Valve Corporation’s upcoming hardware, the Steam Machine, have apparently been leaked.
Twitter/X user SadlyItsBradley has shared a video containing the startup screen and animation for the Steam Machine. It is similar in design to the Steam Deck startup sequence, featuring a minimalist logo of the hardware that transitions into the Steam logo. Read ahead for further details.
Steam Machine Startup Screen & Animation
The aforementioned video of the startup screen and animation for the Steam Machine can be seen below.
The Steam Machine startup screen leak suggests that Valve Corporation may be close to announcing further details regarding the upcoming hardware. The company has yet to reveal information regarding its pricing and availability. Content creator Linus Tech Tips recently offered a detailed estimate of the device’s final MSRP. After visiting the company and getting a transparent look at the hardware’s specs and capabilities, he concluded that enough clues exist to make a highly educated guess. In fact, he was so confident that he joked that if the estimate is off by more than 60 US Dollars, he’ll “eat an entire portal cake on the WAN Show,” adding that this time “the cake [is] true.”
Linus set out to simulate a matching system using retail PC components. The analysis began with Valve’s semi-custom AMD six-core processor and an RDNA3-based GPU with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. Because these parts aren’t available off-the-shelf in desktop form, Linus built a functional equivalent i.e. a Ryzen 5-based platform paired with an RX 6600, because its performance aligns closely with the mobile-class chip Valve is using in the Steam Machine. From there, he compared minimum historical pricing, current retail pricing, and realistic bulk manufacturing costs. Even using aggressively cheap historical prices, Linus estimated that Valve Corporation’s internal build cost still lands “under $600 to $650”.
