{"id":716706,"date":"2026-06-05T10:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716706\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:11:10","slug":"valve-says-its-steam-machine-and-steam-frame-will-launch-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716706\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Says its Steam Machine and Steam Frame Will Launch This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Valve<\/p>\n

Valve\u2019s new Steam Machine and Steam Frame, which were both originally announced in November<\/a> of last year, are now set to launch \u201cthis summer.\u201d Valve delayed the release of both devices in February<\/a> due to the ongoing memory and storage shortages, and it\u2019s still not ready to announce pricing details.<\/p>\n

The company said yesterday<\/a> that it\u2019s expanding its Verified program beyond its Steam Deck gaming handheld, which just received a significant price bump. Valve\u2019s Verified program indicates that a game has been tested by Valve and provides a good customer experience out of the box.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong story short: If your game already runs well on Deck, it will also run well on Machine with no extra work required from you. And if it doesn\u2019t run great on Deck because of CPU or GPU performance, it may still run great on Machine. If you have games like this, you don\u2019t have to take any action: We\u2019re already testing every title on Machine that fell below our performance requirements on Deck,\u201d the company explained.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bit different for the Steam Frame VR headset, which is powered by a Qualcomm\u00a0Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip and 16GB of LDDR5X RAM. The headset will use a translation layer to run x86-based Steam games, but Valve says it\u2019s \u201cprimarily designed\u201d for streaming games from a PC.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Steam Deck Verified, the Steam Frame Standalone Verified program focuses on the experience customers will have with the device out-of-the-box in standalone mode. The criteria are similar as well: the default graphics configuration needs to perform well, text and UI elements need to be clear and legible on the built-in display, and the default controller configuration needs to work well with the Steam Frame Controllers,\u201d Valve said yesterday.<\/p>\n

A month ago, Valve started shipping the new Steam controller<\/a>, the first piece of its expanded hardware ecosystem. It\u2019s priced at $99 in the US, and it works with any PC or device running Steam or the Steam Link app. It will also connect wirelessly to the upcoming Steam Machine, and it will be trackable by the Steam Frame\u2019s cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s new Steam Machine and Steam Frame, which were both originally announced in November of last year, are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,165488,162399,105,25251],"class_list":["post-716706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-steam-frame","tag-steam-machine","tag-technology","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}