{"id":613704,"date":"2026-05-31T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:18:12","slug":"steam-machine-welcome-tour-signals-potential-launch-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613704\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Machine Welcome Tour Signals Potential Launch Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/349337\/valve-steam-machine-shows-up-in-vulkan-compliance-database-launch-date-remains-elusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Previous updates hinted<\/a> that Valve&#8217;s Steam Machine may be launching somewhat soon, although a recent update to Steam&#8217;s backend has added a welcome tour for the Steam Machine and potentially given us a glimpse at Valve&#8217;s intended launch date for the Steam Machine. The welcome tour, which was shared on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SadlyItsBradley\/status\/2060748003762135478\" target=\"_blank\">X by Brad Lynch<\/a>, walks players through the initial setup of the Steam Machine and updating the Steam Controller&#8217;s firmware for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>For reference, Valve added the Steam Controller&#8217;s welcome tour to Steam&#8217;s backend on April 1 and revealed pricing and availability for the controller a little over a month later. If Valve sticks to the same timeline, we could see the Steam Machine launch in early July. However, Valve has previously made it clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/admin\/news\/edit\/349537#2;400;0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">it has little control over the factors preventing the launch of the Steam Machine<\/a>. If Valve&#8217;s previous statements on the Steam Machine&#8217;s pricing are anything to go by, the gaming giant will launch the gaming console when it is able to do so at a reasonable price or when it can no longer wait for that window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previous updates hinted that Valve&#8217;s Steam Machine may be launching somewhat soon, although a recent update to Steam&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}