Steam Machine and Steam Frame: your questions answered
TL;DR
Valve is launching the Steam Machine console in early 2026 to compete with Sony and Microsoft, and a gaming headset to rival Meta. This article answers common questions about their ambitious hardware push.
Valve is making a game console that might take on Sony and Microsoft. It's also making a gaming headset to compete with Meta. These are big, ambitious, and messy efforts, and we have lots of questions. So do you!
We've gotten a lot of questions about Valve's huge 2026 hardware push and entry into the console wars, and we're compiling the answers we've got so far. Some of them are direct answers to your subscriber questions in our AMA; thank you for paying our salaries!
So, let's start with…
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