Valve announced a new lineup of at-home hardware on Wednesday, revealing a new Steam Machine, a VR headset called the Steam Frame, and an updated Steam Controller. All three products are planned to ship in “early 2026,” with more specific timing to be announced “after the first of the year.”
Prices for the new hardware have not yet been revealed, but all three products are available to wishlist on Steam. The hardware will ship to the United States, Canada, the UK, the EU, and Australia. Distribution for Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan will be handled by Komodo, which also distributes the Steam Deck.
The new Steam Machine is a cube-shaped, console-like gaming PC that comes with Steam OS. Valve states the machine contains “six times the horsepower” of the Steam Deck, featuring a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6-core CPU and a semi-custom AMD RDNA3 28-core GPU. It will include 16GB of DDR5 RAM plus 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM. Two models, 512GB and 2TB, will be offered, both including high-speed microSD card slots. Like the Steam Deck, the Steam Machine is a PC that can run other operating systems, and it will receive its own verification ratings to indicate how well games run on it.
Valve also unveiled the Steam Frame, a wireless and lightweight VR headset. It is described as a “streaming-first” device intended to stream all Steam games, not just VR-specific titles. It also functions as a standalone PC “powered by a Snapdragon processor” and will have its own verification ratings for games that can run “stand-alone” on the device.
Finally, the new Steam Controller features dual trackpads and grip buttons on the back, giving it “input parity” with the Steam Deck. This allows it to use the thousands of existing community control configurations from day one. The controller is designed to work with PCs, tablets, phones, a docked Steam Deck, the Steam Frame, and the new Steam Machine.
