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Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais gets candid about the Steam Machine's launch stock, revealing things looked 'really dire' at the start of the year. Learn about the hurdles faced in bringing the new hardware to market.
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00:00I think we should talk about the availability.
00:01That is going to be a real sticking point for this.
00:03We already know that manufacturing has been a struggle,
00:06sourcing all the components has been a struggle,
00:07sourcing components at a specific price
00:10to even try and hit this elevated price point has been tricky.
00:14So you asked about the stock availability.
00:15I've got the quote here.
00:16They say, launch stock, it's a little bit less.
00:19We've got a sizable amount compared to what it initially looked like.
00:21Things looked really dire at the beginning of the year.
00:24We weren't sure if there was going to be anything at all.
00:26So from our perspective, we've still got to a pretty good place.
00:29That was Pierre-Louis Guiffet, who you were talking to about that.
00:34He's basically been quite explicit there.
00:35It's not where we were hoping.
00:38It's better than we were fearing at the start of 2026,
00:41which is kind of quite telling.
00:42They say they got to a pretty good place.

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