The next generation of consoles won’t be cheap by today’s standards, and neither will Valve’s hotly anticipated Steam Machine . The little, cube-shaped console is a bundle of PC parts inside a box, and Valve reps have consistently said it may demand PC-like prices. Considering the cost of those individual components, what that means for the price could be drastically different just a few months from now.

Valve has not given any official word regarding price or release date for its PC/console hybrid device. In an email with Gizmodo, Valve hinted it could arrive early next year. The roughly 6 x 6-inch box with a small LED light bar houses a “semi-custom” AMD chip with the option for changing out RAM or SSD storage. The console uses Valve’s own SteamOS with its clean interface to let you a

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