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The Steam Machine could be weeks away from launch, as Valve confirms it will ship 'this summer' — but there's still no price tag, and experts think it could start at $1,200

Valve's Steam Machine officially has a new release schedule, but still doesn't have a set price, and analysts hint at what gamers have feared the most.

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Valve's Gabe Newell argued gamers "have enormous choice" when grilled over Steam's alleged monopoly on PC gaming – report

"Valve does not have a policy or practice of dictating prices to third-party software developers on other platforms"

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Donkey Kong 64 beat Pokemon mania to become the best-selling game of 1999 in the US

"Games sold at a different cadence in the late 90s than they do today"

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Analysts react to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass price drop from CEO Asha Sharma, believe it "should help subscriber numbers grow" — "Not surprising at all"

Following Microsoft's huge Xbox Game Pass price drop last week, industry analysts have reacted to the cut and say they believe it will lead to growth.

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Resident Evil Requiem has sold 7 million copies in 2 months—a milestone that took the RE4 remake a year

Capcom celebrated the milestone with two delightful cakes.

PC Gamer

Analysts say Xbox Game Pass price cut is 'not surprising at all' since Call of Duty's addition to the service 'did not lead to a significant increase in Xbox console sales or even subscriptions'

Industry analysts appear to agree that Microsoft's decision to slash the price of Xbox Game Pass and remove Call of Duty games as day-one launch titles was the right move.

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Xbox's Starfield just topped US game sales for the first time since launch after its PS5 release — is Bethesda's RPG selling well on PlayStation after all?

Starfield was the best-selling game in the US during the same week that the Xbox RPG came to PS5 and got some sizable content updates from Bethesda.

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Starfield "was the best-selling video game of the week" in US for first time in nearly 3 years, reports analyst, despite Bethesda's rough PS5 port of the RPG

Some good news for a change

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Crimson Desert players average over 20 hours a week in the open-world game, blowing away almost everything else on consoles

Players are pouring in the hours, at least in the US

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PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"

The PS5 Pro is about to cost $900, after all

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Epic Games lays off "over 1,000" people, CEO Tim Sweeney says "I'm sorry we're here again" and blames "the downturn in Fortnite engagement"

"Being the industry's vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves"

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"I could see $1,000": Steam Machine is "a PC with console benefits" and console hardware struggles, analyst says, and "whatever the next Xbox thing is, it's going to be just like it in a lot of ways"

Valve's living room box faces major production challenges this year

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Peak's "8 bucks is still 5 bucks" view is a genuine look "behind the curtain" at "vibes pricing" across the industry, analyst says: "70 bucks seems right. All right, we'll try that"

"Is this a $60 game?"

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PC gamers and Steam customers are "a really bright spot" as the games industry struggles with pricing and sustainability, analyst says: "We can look at an audience that's excited to try new things"

PC gaming "has a lot of positives" that are extra positive right now

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Nintendo Switch 2 is still the fastest-selling console in tracked US history – though its bonkers sales numbers haven't beaten the handheld Game Boy Advance

The power of GBA

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"Hardware prices will not fall": Industry analysts are "extremely concerned about" console prices, wouldn't be shocked if the Nintendo Switch 2 costs more in 2026

Happy new year

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New data shows that only 1.6 million units of video game hardware were sold in the US in November, making it the worst month since 1995

Video game hardware and physical software sales just had their worst November in the United States since 1995, despite the holiday season.

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Physical Video Game Copies Face Extinction Risk as Sales Hit Worst Month in Decades

Sales of physical video games have plunged after the market recorded its worst month in decades, raising fears that boxed copies could soon disappear.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 topped the US sales charts in November 2025 — but it's down compared to Black Ops 6

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the best-selling game of November 2025 in the U.S, per Circana, but is down compared to 2024's Black Ops 6.

GamesRadar

Game hardware is now $200 more expensive on average than it was in 2019, according to industry analyst: "It could potentially be catastrophic"

That's not good, is it?

GamesRadar

A machine you've almost certainly never heard of just spent a week beating the PS5 as the second best-selling games console in the US behind the Switch 2

The Nex Playground reigns (almost) supreme

PC Gamer

Call of Duty has been the biggest-selling shooter in the US since 2006, but that could soon change according to industry analyst: 'This part of the market hasn't been this competitive in 20 years'

Activision's shooter was last beaten at its own game in the US by the original Gears of War.

PC Gamer

In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it

Fess up: Which one of you was it?

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AAA games like the $70 Ghost of Yotei are really just for "more affluent people," says analyst, as soaring prices push players toward free games and Fortnite: "People just don't realize, because they're not paying attention"

Well...start paying attention, folks

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"In other words, 72% don't know what a monopoly is," analyst says of study that finds 72% of game devs "see Steam as a monopoly"

"Market share isn't what defines a monopoly, folks"

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