{"id":508238,"date":"2026-03-07T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:47:09","slug":"valve-says-it-still-plans-to-ship-the-steam-machine-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508238\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve says it still plans to ship the Steam Machine in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blog post from Valve on Friday initially seemed to throw cold water on the idea that the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller would arrive in 2026 at all. But Valve tells The Verge it did not mean to suggest that \u2014 and that all three pieces of hardware will indeed ship this year, despite challenges from the ongoing memory shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, Valve wrote that \u201cwe hope to ship in 2026,\u201d which sounded like a downgrade from Valve\u2019s earlier promises. As recently as last month, the company explicitly said it had not changed its plans to ship all three new hardware products \u201cin the first half of the year,\u201d even though that itself was a change from its original goal of \u201cearly 2026\u201d or \u201cQ1 2026.\u201d Today, it seemed like the company was quietly delaying the product yet again, and Valve didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

But after we initially published this article about Valve\u2019s post, Valve PR representative Kaci Aitchison Boyle told The Verge that \u201cnothing has actually changed on our end.\u201d Valve has also updated the blog post<\/a> to state that \u201cwe will be shipping all three products this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right around its original November reveal, it became clear that memory costs were starting to skyrocket as AI companies started buying up as many chips as they could. Hardware makers of all sizes<\/a> are having to grapple with what that means for their products, and many of the biggest hardware players aren\u2019t immune; even Apple is reportedly being forced<\/a> to pay higher prices for memory.<\/p>\n

Correction, March 6th: Based on a blog post from Valve, an earlier version of this story stated that Valve\u2019s new hardware products may not launch this year. Valve has now stated they will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blog post from Valve on Friday initially seemed to throw cold water on the idea that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[559,3,1300,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-508238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pc-gaming","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}