… And I'm not even talking about VR's slide back into the shadows. The incredible success of the Steam Deck handheld let Valve return to some former hardware passions, both in the PC-console hybrid space and in VR. …
… News Analysis Playing pirated Forza Horizon 6 can get you banned for 8,000 years A Reddit user who played a pirated copy of Forza Horizon 6 before release received a hardware-linked ban that expires on December 31, 9999. …
… The same RAM crisis has pushed the company's new hardware projects, the console-style Steam Machine with its discrete GPU and the Meta Quest-style Steam Frame VR headset, to an uncertain "late 2026" timeline. …
… Valve offered a nominal update late last week, covering the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame VR headset, and the new second-gen Steam Controller. …
… It's the same problem that's delayed the Steam Machine and Steam Frame VR headset. …
… The Steam Frame had me hoping Valve could save the struggling VR gaming niche. But both of those devices rely on RAM and storage... which means their very existences are kind of up in the air right now. But Valve's new Steam Controller doesn't have that problem. …
… Both the Xbox and the PlayStation have had huge price jumps for existing hardware, sans any kind of upgrade, more than five years into a console generation. That's the first time that's ever happened in my lifetime. Just this week Meta raised the price on a years-old Quest VR headset design. …