Let’s pick Oct 2025 as our ‘pre RAMpocalypse’ time frame.

Data source: pangoly.com

(I removed BestBuy because it is an extremely erratic dataset that basically bounces around the average of others, but makes the graph nearly unreadable)

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16GB DDR5 Crucial RAM

Oct 2025: ~$50

Jun 2026: ~$275

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2TB NVME M.2 Crucial SSD

Oct 2025: ~$140

Jun 2026: ~$300 (if you remove Adorama)

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512GB NVME M.2 Kingston SSD

Oct 2025: ~$50

Jun 2026: ~$200

$275 - $50 = $225

$300 - $140 = $160

$225 + $160 = $385

Thus, the 2TB variant has an effective ~$385 upcharge due to the RAMpocalypse.

2TB variant MSRP is $1349, thus it would be ~$964 pre-RAMpocalypse, meaning that the RAMpocalypse % upcharge is ~39.9%

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Do the same with the 512GB variant:

$275 - $50 = $225

$200 - $50 = $150

$225 + $150 = $375

$375 effective RAMpocalypse upcharge.

MSRP of 512GB variant is $1050, thus it would be ~$675 pre-RAMpocalypse, % upcharge of ~55.5%

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Obviously this methodology is not perfectly correct, but I’d argue its quite reasonable ‘napkin math’… you could maybe make an index of all prices of all brands of RAM/SSD in exact performance spec matches to be slightly more accurate, but yeah, roughly, the RAMpocalypse made the Steam Machine, on average, about 40% to 45% more expensive than it otherwise would have been.