Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS

The day has arrived, Valve have introduced a serious {hardware} growth with a number of units together with the brand new Steam Body, Steam Controller and Steam Machine. And naturally, they’re powered by SteamOS (Linux), precisely the kind of factor we cowl! Large information for Linux gaming, and reveals how dedicated Valve are to open supply and having an open platform.

“We have been tremendous pleased with the success of Steam Deck,” mentioned Gabe Newell, President of Valve, “and PC avid gamers have continued asking for much more methods to play all the nice titles of their Steam libraries. Our work over time on different {hardware} and much more importantly on SteamOS has enabled Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Body to just do that.”

Here is what they’ve introduced for 2026:

• Steam Controller:
  

  • Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all of the inputs to play all of the video games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
  • Excessive-performance, ergonomic controller with next-generation precision magnetic thumbsticks, full-sized controls, trackpads, gyro, and grip buttons.
  • Steam Controller is nice wherever Steam is: PC, laptop computer, Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Body.

• Steam Machine:

  • Made for highly effective, versatile PC gaming on an enormous display screen; quiet and sufficiently small to suit beneath your TV, in your desk, or anyplace else you need to sport. (It is a roughly 6-inch (160mm) dice!)
  • Runs SteamOS for a similar nice expertise as Steam Deck
  • Made to work with Steam Controller, however can pair together with your different favourite equipment too.

• Steam Frame:

  • Stream ALL of your Steam video games, VR and non-VR alike
  • Snug, wi-fi, light-weight VR designed to present you a brand new option to expertise your total Steam library
  • Full controller enter for PC VR and non-VR video games
  • It is a PC! Steam Body is powered by a Snapdragon® processor, and runs SteamOS for a similar nice expertise as Steam Deck
  • Helps standalone play for immersive gaming anyplace

All of them will ship to the identical areas because the Steam Deck (US, CA, UK, EU, AU) in addition to areas coated by KOMODO: Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. No particular launch timings or pricing has been introduced but.

Steam Machine Information:

Fashions

• 512GB mannequin and 2TB mannequin
• Steam Machine will ship in a bundle with Steam Controller and also will be accessible standalone

Primary Specs

• CPU: Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T
  
• GPU: Semi-Customized AMD RDNA3 28CUs

  • 2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP
  • Helps 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR
  • Ray tracing supported
  • Over 6x extra highly effective than Steam Deck

• 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
• 512 GB & 2 TB SSD fashions

  • micro SD card slot for expanded storage/transportable catalog

• Inner energy provide, AC energy 110-240V

I/O

• DisplayPort 1.4

  • As much as 4K @ 240Hz or 8K@60Hz
  • Helps HDR, FreeSync, and daisy-chaining

• HDMI 2.0

  • As much as 4K @ 120Hz
  • Helps HDR, FreeSync, and CEC

• Ethernet 1 Gbps
• USB-C 10 Gbps, 3.2 Gen 2
• 4x T ype USB-A ports

  • 2x USB 3 within the entrance
  • 2x USB 2 within the rear

• 2×2 Wi-Fi 6E, devoted BT antenna
• Built-in Steam Controller 2.4GHz radio

Different options

• Works with different controllers, equipment, and PC peripherals
• Wake with Steam Controller
• Runs SteamOS

  • Acquainted, gaming first consumer expertise
  • Quick droop / resume
  • Steam cloud saves, and all the opposite Steam options you’d count on

• Customizable LED bar

  • Personalize with colours and animation
  • Mirror system standing (e.g. downloads, booting, updating)

Steam Body Information:

Light-weight, modular structure

• 185g core
• 440g with included headstrap
• (facial interface, audio, rear battery)

Primary Specs

• 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 ARM64 processor
• 16GB Unified LPDDR5X RAM
• Wi-Fi 7, 2×2

  • Twin 5Ghz/6Ghz streaming for simultaneous VR and Wi-Fi

• 256GB / 1TB UFS storage choices

  • microSD card slot for prolonged storage

Optics

• Pancake optics
• 2160 x 2160 LCD (per eye)
• 72-144Hz refresh fee (144Hz experimental)
• Giant FOV (as much as 110 levels)

Monitoring

• 4x outward going through monochrome cameras for
• controller & headset monitoring
• 2x inside cameras for eye monitoring
• Outward IR illuminator (for darkish environments)

Different options

• Wi-fi Adapter included

  • Wi-Fi 6E (6Ghz)
  • Quick, direct, low-latency hyperlink between headset & PC

• Foveated Streaming

  • Eye-tracking drives video stream, sending highest decision to the place you’re wanting.

• Audio

  • Twin speaker drivers (per ear), built-in into headstrap
  • Twin microphone array

• Monochrome digicam passthrough

  • Person accessible entrance growth port( 2x 2.5Gbps digicam interface / Gen 4 PCIe )

• Rechargeable 21.6 Wh Li-On Battery
• SteamOS

  • Sleep / wake, cloud saves, Proton

Steam Body Controllers

• Full 6-DOF monitoring and IMU assist
• Capacitive finger sensing
• Magnetic thumbsticks (TMR) for improved
• precision, responsiveness and reliability
• Haptic suggestions
• Enter parity with conventional sport pad
• Replaceable AA battery (40hr life)
• Non-compulsory straps

Steam Controller Information:

Works with any gadget that runs Steam

• Home windows / Mac / Linux PCs
• PC handhelds
• iOS / Android (with Steam Hyperlink)
• Steam Deck
• Steam Machine
• Steam Body

3 ways to attach

• Steam Controller Puck

  • Pre-paired, plug and play
  • Proprietary wi-fi connection
  • Low-latency (~8ms full end-to-end)

    • 4ms polling fee
    • measured at 5m

  • Extra steady than Bluetooth
  • As much as 4 Steam Controllers per Puck

• Bluetooth
• USB tethered play

Li-ion rechargeable battery

• 35hr+ play time
• Cost with Steam Controller Puck or USB

Magnetic thumbsticks (TMR)

• Improved responsiveness and reliability
• Capacitive contact

Grip sense

• Fast option to activate/deactivate gyro
• Assignable enter

HD haptics

• 4x haptic motors

  • 2x LRA haptic motors in trackpads for HD tactile suggestions
  • 2x Excessive output LRA haptic motors in grips for HD sport haptics together with rumble

Full enter listing

• ABXY, D-pad
• L/R triggers, L/R bumpers
• Magnetic thumbsticks (TMR)
• View / Menu / Steam / QAM buttons
• 4x assignable grip buttons
• 2x trackpads with haptic suggestions
• Stress sensitivity for configurable
• click on energy
• 6-axis IMU
• Capacitive grip sense

Valve do be aware within the press particulars how a number of the specs are topic to alter, so these will not be precisely last.

As a part of this, Valve shall be increasing the Steam Deck Verified program. This may embrace new rankings for the Steam Body and Steam Machine. They are going to be often called Steam Machine Verified and Steam Body Verified.

That is what we have now been ready for and why GamingOnLinux exists. We have been overlaying Linux gaming for years earlier than Valve even got here alongside, and Valve have virtually stored us in enterprise with all their open supply work (and particularly Proton).

In contrast to the unique launch of the primary try on the Steam Machine, Valve has come a significantly lengthy option to make it viable. Proton, the software to run Home windows video games on Linux, has made it click on and play for tens of 1000’s of video games. So now, it makes much more sense.

Completely superb. Very like when Valve initially introduced Proton, I really feel a little bit of the shakes over right here from pleasure. That is actually some world-changing stuff happening for Linux gaming. It is time for the stranglehold that Microsoft have had with Home windows to finish.

What this additionally ought to hopefully do, is put a bit extra stress on builders to get their anti-cheat enabled for Linux, in any other case that is nonetheless going to be fairly numerous standard video games that will not be playable on any of those units. As we’re monitoring on our dedicated anti-cheat page. Particularly so if the Steam Machine is priced moderately, that could possibly be a ridiculous quantity of additional gamers utilizing SteamOS Linux. Builders are going to want to pay much more consideration to how their video games run on Linux.

On high of that, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if Epic Video games will rethink their stance on the Epic Retailer and Fortnite.

We have opened up some new content material tags so that you can observe alongside: Steam Frame | Steam Machine. You may as well join us on Discord with devoted chat channels.

Sadly, Valve didn’t present GamingOnLinux with any heads up on it, so we’re enjoying catch-up on all the small print. There’s additionally at present no phrase on overview samples like we had for the Steam Deck LCD and Steam Deck OLED, so if you wish to guarantee we are able to seize them please do support GamingOnLinux directly.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.