Madrid, April 19, 2026, 19:32 CEST
Playnix, the Madrid-based outfit operated by EmuDeck S.L., kicked off fresh sales for its Playnix Console—this is the Linux gaming PC tagged at €1,139. The company is targeting buyers who haven’t moved on from waiting for the next Steam Machine from Valve.
Timing could make all the difference. Valve hasn’t finalized a price tag for its living-room PC yet, while over in Spain, Playnix has started accepting orders. The company’s product page flagged just 59 consoles remaining—“last items in stock”—and warned buyers that shipping could take more than two weeks if demand holds up. Playnix
Playnix is skipping the usual console formula. Instead, it’s delivering a small PC tucked into a 3D-printed shell—dimensions clock in at 320 x 247 x 64 mm. The system runs on PlaynixOS, a take on Arch Linux that jumps straight to a Steam-like game launcher. Buyers get an 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller, a 4K HDMI cable, and the power cord packed in.
It’s all about the hardware: Playnix puts a Ryzen 5 six-core CPU up front, pairs it with 16GB of DDR4 RAM, and drops in a 512GB NVMe SSD—leaving space to slot in a second drive. Power comes from a 600-watt Flex PSU. Graphics run on a Radeon RDNA4 card, specifically a Radeon RX 9060 XT with 32 compute units and 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM. Thermal design power splits out to 65 watts for the CPU and 150 watts on the GPU.
The connectivity lineup borrows straight from the PC scene: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1, USB-C 3.1, plus two USB 3.0 and four USB 2.0 ports on the spec sheet. Buyers aren’t tied to PlaynixOS, according to Playnix—you can swap to Windows, Bazzite, SteamOS, or another OS if that’s your thing.
The company claims its system can run demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K, hitting 60fps, if you turn on FSR or XeSS in “Quality” mode—meaning the graphics start at a lower resolution and upscale for a sharper 4K image. That’s what they’re promising, though so far, there aren’t any independent benchmarks to confirm it. TweakTown
That price point—€1,139—puts a Linux gaming PC right up against Valve’s Steam Machine, Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro, and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X. Playnix is bullish about what it can do, but so far it’s just the company’s own numbers. No hands-on reviews of the final hardware yet. On the product page, Playnix flags that the price isn’t set in stone. If component costs swing, especially for RAM, buyers could see changes from batch to batch.
Valve’s postponement opened up a hole in the timeline. Still, the company reiterated to The Verge just last month that it’s moving forward with the 2026 launch for the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller. PR rep Kaci Aitchison Boyle brushed off the chatter after a blog post renewed questions about the schedule, saying, “nothing has actually changed on our end.” The Verge
Component costs remain a headache across the board. Valve blamed memory and storage shortages for the ongoing shuffle of Steam Machine and Steam Frame shipping schedules—and for changes to their pricing. Playnix, on the other hand, has defended its rolling, batch-based pricing, which doesn’t look so unusual in this context, but it does mean buyers are stuck waiting, never quite sure what they’ll pay.
Valve’s pushing for 4K, 60 fps gaming on its Steam Machine, relying heavily on FSR to reach those numbers. Valve engineer Yazan Aldehayyat told PC Gamer the target is “enough performance for Steam games at 4K60 when using upscaling.” Playnix is after the same spot in the living room, but it’s sticking to the classic boutique PC model—user-swappable parts and all. PC Gamer
Playnix is keeping things simple for the moment: the device is out, there’s a listed price, and its GPU memory beats Valve’s 8GB Steam Machine. The big question lingers—can a smaller player using custom 3D-printed cases and its own Linux-based OS hit the level of polish, updates, and manufacturing scale buyers expect from Valve?
