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Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame (lemmy.world)
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Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

Also listed here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Valve has already sent support for the new Steam Controller upstream: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame for release in 2026. There is an image of a Steam Controller, which looks like a hybrid between the original Steam Controller and the layout and trackpads of the Steam Deck.
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Any educated guesses, or layman guesses, about the price?

My layman guess is 600-800, the low price being same price as the top end steam deck on release

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The Machine will apparently be about the price of "an entry level PC".

    The Frame will "not cost more than the Index".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not more than the index is a low bar considering it's about the most expensive of the mainstream headsets

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Literally every VR headset released this year is over 1k usd. Only meta (and now valve) care about budget headsets

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The only ones that released this year are enthusiast premium brands, unless I'm missing any. Last year had the quest and the HTC which I'll admit I was wrong about, I thought it was lower than exactly 1k

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    For the cube I expect 1k USD minimum.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't see that being the case, it's relatively low end silicon, with meh levels of RAM and very poor levels of VRAM.

    Seems to me like they're targeting a lower price point, which I think is a good idea if they want to take market share from Microsoft.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Don't get me wrong, I'm all for lower end system, something I could by for my kids. But given the price of other consoles, I'm a bit nervous about the final price, hence I mentally prepare myself for 1k USD so I can be (hopefully) pleasantly surprised.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I was very surprised to see the only upgrade is a generous storage from 512 GiB to 2 TiB... I would rather build my own PC, spend a little extra, cover other needs I have (zfs pool for videos), and get a good GPU that I can always replace for a newer one in a few years... But of course, that's just me. That new GPU could easily cost as much as the Steam Machine itself, hehe. Of course, it would be way more powerful..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I stopped building my own PCs over a decade ago because I was barely getting the parts at the same rate they would've come in a pre-built, ram was always hard to get, good deals "sold out" so quickly, and if a part goes bad it's easier to take it to a warranty repair than it is for me to fight with the vendors myself.

    My main machines recently have been low power laptops, my steam deck, and my phone, using GeForce now has allowed me to play most of my games on shit hardware, and my 10 year old games run just fine (mostly) on my 5 year old laptop.

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