Steam Frame Australian price confirmed, and yes, there's a waitlist

Steam Frame, Valve's latest entry in the VR hardware market, will cost AU$1,609 in Australia for the 256 GB model with included VR controllers. For the 1 TB Steam Frame model with included VR controllers, the Aussie price is AU$1,969.

The price isn't super surprising: the entry level model costs the same as the entry level Steam Machine. There's also the not-insignificant problem of the ongoing memory crisis: Valve would have preferred to release it cheaper.

The memory crisis has also necessitated another hardware waitlist. Like the Steam Machine, you won't be able to simply buy a Steam Frame and receive one a few days later. Instead, there's a waitlist lottery running between now and September 18, 2026 at 3am AEST. If you join the list between that time you'll have a chance to receive a unit ASAP.

If you wait until after September 18, you'll join a normal non-randomized queue, meaning the longer you leave it the longer you'll wait. Jacob Ridley has the full details.

PC Gamer's hardware team has been testing Valve's newest piece of kit, with Jacob pinning an 80 / 100 to the device in his Steam Frame review. "It's admittedly a tough sell as an upgrade to a Quest 3, or as someone's first step into VR when other options are much cheaper, but the Steam Frame is the best all-round VR headset I've used to date," he wrote.

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Shaun Prescott is the Australian editor of PC Gamer. With over ten years experience covering the games industry, his work has appeared on GamesRadar+, TechRadar, The Guardian, PLAY Magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and more. Specific interests include indie games, obscure Metroidvanias, speedrunning, experimental games and FPSs. He thinks Lulu by Metallica and Lou Reed is an all-time classic that will receive its due critical reappraisal one day.