(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) The Steam Machine was finally released on Monday, and many gamers were disappointed with its $1,049 starting price , which doesn’t include a Steam Controller (you have to pay an extra $79 to bundle one). Unfortunately, Valve ’s hands were tied in this due to the current RAMpocalypse, where even the cheapest RAM kits now cost four times as much as before. While engineers Pierre-Loup Griffais and Yazan Aldehayyat said that they cannot give a hard number for the console’s original price point, they told IGN in an interview that it would have experienced a “probably similar” price increase to the one the Steam Deck got in May 2026.…