Following on from the success of the Steam Deck, Valve is creating its very own ecosystem of products. The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all set to launch in the new year. We’ve tried each of them and here’s what you need to know about each one.
“From the Frame to the Controller to the Machine, we’re a fairly small industrial design team here, and we really made sure it felt like a family of devices, even to the slightest detail,” Clement Gallois, a designer at Valve, tells me during a recent visit to Valve HQ. “How it feels, the buttons, how they react… everything belongs and works together kind of seamlessly.”
For more detail, make sure to check out our in-depth stories linked below:
Steam Frame: Valve’s new wireless VR headset
Steam Machine: Compact living room gaming box
Steam Controller: A controller to replace your mouse
Valve’s official video announcement.
So uh, ahem.
Yes.
Valve can indeed count to three.
Not everybody lives in the hellhole the US is turning into. I saved up a little since there was just nothing I really wanted to buy, and now there is.
Lol, I do live in the hellhole that is the US, and uh, I have been living lean and building savings, dramatically lowered my cost of living, pre-emptively,because it is hellhole-ifying.
We will still have to wait for the actual price of course, but I’ve now got my own personal foodbank of months worth of staple goods I can survive off of.
Gotta play the video gaming meta game, to be able to keep video gaming, rofl.
You can look a year or whatever back into my comment history where I say ‘this is gonna be the 2nd Great Depression’ when Trump’s econ ‘plan’ crystalized, before the election.
I was not joking, and I acted accordingly.