Just last November, Valve surprised players by announcing its latest product series – Steam Machine, Steam Frame and a new generation of Steam Controller. After months of waiting, Valve finally announced that the new controller will be available in May 2026 at a price of US$99.99. As for the details of the other two products, it is still “Coming Soon”, but according to a senior Valve developer, Steam Machine The launch date may be officially announced in the near future, but before that, the team has one last obstacle to overcome.
accepted in the near future IGN In an interview with the website, SteamOS developer Pierre-Loup Griffais hinted that Valve is already preparing to share more follow-up news about Steam Machine with players, saying that the overall development is currently going very smoothly, and the last problem that needs to be overcome is “supply chain logistics.”
Such a statement means that the Steam Machine hardware itself is basically complete, and to further elaborate on the details, Griffais compared the Steam Machine playing experience to a situation that many existing users of Valve products are already familiar with, which is the experience of docking the Steam Deck handheld console.
According to him, as long as you have experienced this way of playing, you can generally understand the feeling that Steam Machine wants to bring, but this developer is most likely referring to the fact that the two have the same OS environment and a gaming experience similar to that of a home console. As for hardware such as CPU, Steam Machine will obviously bring more powerful performance than Steam Deck.
For now, Valve has officially confirmed that the Steam Mechine console will be equipped with a customized RDNA3 GPU with 8GB GDDR6 memory and a Zen 4 CPU processor that can support up to 4.8GHz. Coupled with 16GB of memory, it is far superior to the Steam Deck in all aspects.
As for the reason why Valve chose to release the new generation of Steam Controller first, Griffais also explained that this is because the main target group of this new product is PC players, and Valve does not want them to delay using it because they are waiting for the Steam Machine host, not to mention that the controller itself does not use memory and other parts that have unstable costs in the near future.
With the launch date of the new generation controller finalized, Griffais hinted that the next one to be released will be the Steam Machine. As for the VR headset Steam Frame, it will have to wait for a while. Even so, the insider once again emphasized that the three products will still be launched in 2026.
In addition to these three disclosed products, GriffaisInterviewHe also hinted that Valve is currently “fully developing” a successor to the Steam Deck, and emphasized that they will never be satisfied with just minor upgrades. Because of this, he also emphasized that it may still be a long time before the new handheld console is released.
Source: KOCPC Chinese