{"id":485535,"date":"2026-06-06T02:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485535\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:54:13","slug":"valves-steam-machine-and-steam-frame-set-to-ship-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/485535\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve’s Steam Machine and Steam Frame set to ship this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve\u2019s next crack at the gaming hardware business is releasing soon. In a blog post<\/a>, the company confirmed that the Steam Machine <\/a>and the Steam Frame <\/a>(its new VR headset) will ship this summer.<\/p>\n

Beyond this, Valve clarified that its \u201cVerified\u201d program, currently used to determine whether games will run properly on the Steam Deck<\/a> handheld, will also be implemented for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. \u201cThe goal is to help customers understand the out-of-box experience for a given title on these new devices, and how smoothly a game will run with no user work or configuration required,\u201d the blog post describes.<\/p>\n

For those out of the loop on the Steam Machine<\/a>, it\u2019s Valve\u2019s latest attempt at streamlining the experience of playing games on computers. It\u2019s a PC running SteamOS designed to play games in the living room, meaning it supports menu navigation via a controller. Valve describes it as six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, and says it will use the same software as the company\u2019s handheld. As for the Steam Frame<\/a>, it\u2019s a VR headset designed to stream games from a PC. It also supports running games locally via Steam OS without being connected to anything.<\/p>\n

With the release window confirmed, the next big question about both pieces of hardware is their price. Just last week, Valve suddenly increased the price of the Steam Deck<\/a> by a whopping $240 to $300, depending on the model. The company is just the latest to announce big price increases for pre-existing software, with Sony<\/a>, Nintendo<\/a>, and Microsoft<\/a> having done the same in recent years in response to market conditions such as rising computer-parts costs and RAM shortages<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the Steam Deck going for a minimum of $789 and the Steam Machine apparently having hardware six times as powerful, it is probably fair to assume that Valve\u2019s latest system will go for a considerable chunk of change, very likely above $1,000.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that this isn\u2019t the first time Valve has released a piece of hardware called the Steam Machine; in 2015, it released another cube-shaped system<\/a>. Unfortunately, it sold poorly enough (less than 500K units in 7 months) to be described as \u201cdead on arrival<\/a>.\u201d While the Steam Deck<\/a> has been much better received, the (presumed) steep price of Valve\u2019s latest hardware will likely prove an imposing barrier to the system\u2019s success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s next crack at the gaming hardware business is releasing soon. In a blog post, the company confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,60,80,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-485535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}