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Valve registers a "STEAM FRAME" trademark for new computer hardware (lemmy.ml)
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Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.

STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.

https://uspto.report/TM/99370857

STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.

https://uspto.report/TM/99370861

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Would they really? Feels like that market is pretty saturated already. Unless they do something unique with it. But then again it would be great for the steam deck.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (7 children)

    They already have the tech for it nearly perfected. Most of the time I play a Steam game now, I’m playing through my phone, tablet, or AppleTV. It’s fantastic.

    Only thing that sucks is the Steam link app locks you out of the store and friends functionality (I believe to comply with Apple restrictions). Locking friends straight up breaks multiplayer in a few games.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't think steam link is perfect as a frequent user, there's lots of connectivity issues

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Probably very dependent on your setup. I have high speed fiber, so the performance is great either at home or remote.

    If you don’t have a great connection, or your upload speed is limited by the ISP, your experience won’t be great. But maybe that’s what Steam frame is going to address?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I'm glad that Steam Link works for you. Meanwhile I gave up on it and decided to just lug my 50LB desktop from room to room instead, because doing so is considerably less of a hassle than putting up with Steam Link and its constant lagging, disconnects, dropouts, FPS dips, and input lag. It's so fucking bad that I can't believe that people actually still use it as more than just a neat novelty for five minutes at a time.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Saturated"? Seriously? How so? I can't think of a single cloud gaming platform that didn't fail miserably. Nobody can seem to be able to make a competitive service. There's a massive gap that needs to be filled.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Uh, GeForce Now? Xbox gamepass/cloud? Amazon Luna? Probably more. And if others fail I assume because there isn't enough demand. (except for stadia, that's just failed because Google gets a hard on for canceling projects). Now I haven't bothered with cloud gaming since OnLive. So I don't know how good any of these are. They probably can be improved on. But to say there are none? Nah.

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