Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)

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Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild) - Lemmy.ca

Announcing new Steam Hardware from Valve: Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame are coming in 2026. Just like Steam Deck, all three devices are optimized for Steam and designed for players to get even more out of their Steam library.

I think all of these are nice, if priced correctly

Steam Frame needs to compete with quest, so prices over $800 are a really tough sell.
Steam Machine needs to compete with consoles, PS5 (non-pro) and Series S, so prices over ~$700 will become really tough.

Prices start becoming really good, if they manage to come it at ~$600 for Steam Frame and ~$500 for Steam Machine.

But with current hardware prices, Valve being valve and no-one can know if they want to make money on the hardware, or if they are willing to sell at cost, or if they are willing to subsidize, who knows where we will land.

Steam Frame I’ve seen reported will be like $1,800 aud, so just over 1k US probably.

I’m buying it regardless as long as it doesn’t launch to be shit

They’ve already said the Frame will be cheaper than the Index, which is $999

I doubt it’s going to be much cheaper, but that’s the ceiling from Valve’s statements

Depends, index alone (no trackers, no controllers) is Quite a bit cheaper