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After Months Of Silence, Valve Finally Narrows Down The Steam Machine’s Release Date
After months of radio silence, Valve has given the strongest indication yet that its living room PC, the Steam Machine, and next-generation VR headset, the Steam Frame, are both nearing release. In an update on Valve's Steamworks Development forums(https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017/view/716780409378048027), the company committed to a summer release window for both devices. This could mean that you might be waiting for either all the way up until September, putting them well beyond the initial early 2026 promises from when Valve initially announced both the Steam Machine and Steam Frame last year. Despite the brief update, Valve has yet to share any pricing details for either device. The ongoing memory and storage crisis, fueled by the demands of AI data centers, struck at exactly the wrong time for Valve as it was preparing the release of its Steam Machine. With speculation already rife over what the living room PC might cost, the company has since raised the prices of its Steam Deck(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-deck-gets-massive-price-hike/) by nearly 50%, with the 1TB OLED model now retailing for $950. An increased wait for the Steam Machine has not helped its prospects, especially with the understanding now that it's likely going to launch at a much higher price than Valve initially desired. The devices 8GB of VRAM has been a contentious talking point since its reveal, with the wide belief that it's not enough to support new AAA releases, especially at 4K resolutions. That has been helped somewhat by AMD's announcement of FSR 4 support for older RDNA 3 GPUs(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-ai-powered-tech-behind-pssr-2-is-coming-to-older-amd-gpus-including-the-steam-machine/1100-6539963/), which the Steam Deck will ship with later this year. For more on both of Valve's upcoming hardware launches, check out everything we know about the Steam Machine(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-machine-release-date-price-everything-we-know/1100-6536286/) and Steam Frame(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-frame-release-date-price-specs-everything-we-know/1100-6536287/) . Be sure to also see if you should be spending $100 on Valve's recently launched Steam Controller,(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/is-the-new-steam-controller-worth-its-high-price/1100-6539640/) which will be included with the Steam Machine when it arrives in a few months.
Valve's Steam Machine and Steam Frame set to ship this summer
Valve's next batch of hardware- the living room-focused PC, the Steam Machine, and its VR headset, the Steam Frame- will be shipping this summer.
Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer
Valve now says that the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are set to launch sometime this summer. In a Thursday blog post detailing its Verified programs for both pieces of hardware, Valve concludes by saying that "We're excited for players to try your titles on the new Steam hardware once they &8230;
It’s Equally Exciting And Worrying That Some Of The Best VR Games Are Coming To Console
Some more classic virtual reality games are coming to flatscreen gaming platforms, as Polyarc has announced Moss: The Forgotten Relic. It's great that more players will have access to these wonderful games, but it does feel like a result of the struggles that VR gaming currently faces. Moss: The Forgotten Relic(https://www.polyarcgames.com/news/announcing-moss-the-forgotten-relic) combines Moss(https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/moss-review-tiny-triumph/1900-6416866/), Moss: The Twilight Garden, and Moss: Book 2 into a singular experience for Steam and PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo consoles. Like in the VR games, players will guide a mouse named Quill through a storybook adventure, interacting with the world to help out along the way. This version reworks the camera and presentation to work on flatscreen TVs or monitors, when it previously did not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-0bqE1wl00 The Moss games are truly some of the best VR experiences out there, so any console player who picks Moss: The Forgotten Relic will likely be in for a great time. That said, it's hard to ignore that this is happening during a rocky year for the VR gaming industry. Meta largely pulled out of first-party development by shutting down its studios in January(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/meta-shuts-down-the-studios-behind-deadpool-vr-asgards-wrath-2-and-resident-evil-4-vr/1100-6537375/), and many other VR studios have shut down or laid off developers(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-just-ceased-game-development-at-the-studio-that-created-rainbow-six-report/1100-6538894/). There's also a larger trend of VR-built games coming to flatscreen platforms this year. Famed VR developer Survios recently ported Alien: Rogue Incursion to consoles(https://www.gamespot.com/articles/alien-rogue-incursion-is-escaping-vr-with-new-enhanced-edition/1100-6531418/), only to subsequently lay off several developers(https://www.uploadvr.com/survios-reportedly-sees-critical-layoffs/). The Myst and Riven VR remakes are also coming to more consoles(https://cyan.com/2026/05/05/myst-and-riven-console-announce/) soon. Even the successful VR developers now feel the need to branch out into more traditional console games. Moss: The Forgotten Relic will be released for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S sometime this summer.
'90s virtual reality, Battlefield 2142, and Total War: This month in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
Here's what was happening in PC gaming in May 1996, May 2006, and May 2016.
VR gaming's spring hot streak is good news for the Steam Deck.
VR gaming is having a moment thanks to great games like Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City.
What Steam Controller launch means for Steam Machine release date
Valve is opening orders for its new controller, but the Steam Machine and Steam Frame still don't have price or release date. What gives?