Valve Announces Steam Machine, Controller, and Frame

Valve announced three new gaming hardware products on Wednesday: the Steam Machine, a compact console-like PC; the Steam Controller, an advanced gamepad; and the Steam Frame, a standalone virtual reality headset. All three devices, designed to expand access to the Steam library, are slated for release in early 2026, with pricing details forthcoming. They are now available for wishlisting on the Steam platform.

The Steam Machine revives Valve's earlier concept of a living-room PC but in a more refined form. Measuring approximately 6 inches on each side, the cube-shaped device runs SteamOS, the Linux-based operating system powering the Steam Deck. Valve describes it as over six times more powerful than the Deck, enabling 4K gaming at 60 frames per second using AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling technology. It supports ray tracing and includes a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 six-core processor clocked up to 4.8 GHz with a 30-watt thermal design power, paired with a semi-custom AMD RDNA 3 graphics processor featuring 28 compute units, 8 GB of GDDR6 video memory at 2.45 GHz, and 16 GB of DDR5 system memory.

Storage options include 512 GB or 2 TB NVMe SSDs, expandable via a...