Tuesday, April 28th 2026 Valve Confirms Staggered Hardware Launch Due to DRAM Crisis: "This Doesn't Have RAM in It" by Cpt.Jank Apr 28th, 2026 07:40 Discuss 11 Comments Valve confirmed not too long ago that it had delayed announcing the pricing of the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controlle… …
… According to the leaker, the planned Steam Machine pricing from two months ago was "still higher than today's Steam Deck prices." The implication seems to be that the Steam Machine pricing towards the end of March was higher than the current $949 top-tier Steam Deck OLED, and that the current Steam… …
… The Steam Machine showed up on the Vulkan database on May 23 sporting Vulkan 1.4 support and AMD Navi 33 GPU hardware . …
Monday, May 4th 2026 Valve Addresses Steam Machine Delays: "Obviously, We're Bummed" by Cpt.Jank Monday, 22:37 Discuss 21 Comments Even though it looks as though Valve may be preparing for some upcoming large-scale hardware shipments , and it has officially launched the Steam Controller that was sl… …
… It's also entirely possible that this is around the time Valve had originally planned to ship the Steam Machine, and it is simply following the plan to make logistics and storage cheaper by keeping the hardware in its own warehouses where it already pays for space. …
Thursday, May 14th 2026 Valve Gears Up for Steam Frame Launch With Improved Arm Support in Proton, Qualcomm Listing by Cpt.Jank Thursday, 05:55 Discuss 1 Comment With the launch of the Steam Controller now firmly behind us and shipping slowly getting some momentum, gamers have started speculating a… …
… The full comment by Griffais reads: "We're hard at work on it, and obviously every step of the way, if you look at our hardware projects over the years, you can draw a straight line from the original Steam Controller and Steam Machine to Steam Deck, to everything that we're announcing and shipping … …
… Helping this effort is Valve , whose Steam Machine runs on the SteamOS Linux operating system and uses AMD graphics. …
… While there are still questions about the performance of both games, it's yet another sign that two popular games from sizeable studios are being optimized for Valve's hardware—a positive indicator for the Steam Machine's playable library, too. …
… It's unclear if and when the prototype mini PC will launch, but it will likely have to compete with the likes of the Steam Machine if it does make it to the mass market. …