The next generation of consoles could potentially breach the $1000 market with relative ease, thanks to increasing chip, storage, and memory costs all contributing to a much higher bill of materials. Valve finally revealed the pricing of its long-awaited Steam Machine earlier this week, with the compact SteamOS-powered living room PC priced at $1,049 for the 512GB base model and $1,349 for the 2TB version, or $1,428 when bundled with the new Stea... [3395 chars]