Madrid, April 19, 2026, 19:32 CEST
Playnix, the Madrid-registered gaming PC brand operated by EmuDeck S.L., has put a second batch of its Linux-based Playnix Console on sale for €1,139, pitching the compact machine at buyers still waiting for Valve’s next Steam Machine.
The listing matters now because Valve has yet to give firm pricing for its own living-room PC, while Playnix is already taking orders from Spain. Its product page showed “last items in stock,” 59 units available, and a warning that high demand could push lead times beyond two weeks. Playnix
The Playnix Console is not a traditional console. It is a small-form-factor PC in a 320 x 247 x 64 mm 3D-printed shell, running PlaynixOS, an Arch-based Linux system meant to boot into a console-like Steam gaming interface. The box includes a 4K HDMI cable, power cable and an 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller.
The hardware is the main hook. Playnix lists a Ryzen 5 six-core processor, 16GB of DDR4 memory, a 512GB NVMe SSD with another slot for expansion, a 600-watt Flex power supply and a Radeon RDNA4 GPU with 32 compute units, identified as a Radeon RX 9060 XT with 16GB of GDDR6 video memory. Thermal design power, a rough measure of heat and power draw that cooling must handle, is listed at 65 watts for the CPU and 150 watts for the GPU.
Connectivity is also PC-like: Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1, USB-C 3.1, two USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports. Playnix says users can install Windows, Bazzite, SteamOS or another operating system instead of the preinstalled PlaynixOS.
The company claims the system can run demanding games at 4K and 60 frames per second using FSR or XeSS “Quality” presets, upscaling tools that render a game at a lower internal resolution and reconstruct the image for a sharper 4K display. It cites Cyberpunk 2077 as an example, but published reports noted that independent benchmarks are not yet available. TweakTown
That caveat is important. A €1,139 Linux gaming PC will be judged against Valve’s Steam Machine, Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, but Playnix’s stronger performance claims remain company guidance until reviewers test retail units. The product page also says prices may change between batches because component costs, especially RAM, can move.
Valve’s delay has opened the window. The company told The Verge last month that it still planned to ship the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller in 2026, with PR representative Kaci Aitchison Boyle saying “nothing has actually changed on our end,” after wording in a blog post raised fresh questions about timing. The Verge
Component costs remain the risk for both sides. Valve previously said memory and storage shortages had forced it to revisit shipping schedules and pricing, especially for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. That backdrop makes Playnix’s batch-based pricing less unusual, but also less predictable for buyers who wait.
Valve has said its Steam Machine target is 4K gaming at 60 frames per second with FSR on many titles, and PC Gamer reported that Valve engineer Yazan Aldehayyat had described the benchmark as enough performance for Steam games at 4K60 when using upscaling. Playnix is aiming at the same living-room use case, just with a more conventional boutique-PC model and parts that can be swapped later.
For now, Playnix has the simpler pitch: a shipping product, a listed price and a bigger GPU memory figure than Valve’s announced 8GB Steam Machine configuration. The harder question is whether a small seller using 3D-printed cases and its own Linux build can match the polish, software support and supply scale that buyers expect from Valve.
