Video game company Valve has announced its new PC-console hybrid, Steam Machine, which will be available in 2026.
The new box-shaped Steam Machine is set to have six times the power of its predecessor Steam Deck.
Promising the comfort of cozy living room gaming, the Steam Machine is a console-looking cube measuring six inches by six inches.
It is ready to play once you plug it in a television, projector or monitor.
What’s in the box?
As well as enjoying the advantage of six times more power than Steam Deck, users have the benefit of 4K gaming with 60 frames per second with FSR.
Valve also teased its new controller with dual trackpads, gyro, grip button, high definition haptics, Steam button, and magnetic thumbsticks.
It will also include a combination of charging and wireless pairing with its new adapter, which will work in one “snap”.
The specs will feature AMD Zen 4 CPU with six cores and clock speed of 4.8GHz, AMD RDNA 3 with 2.45GHz clock speed and 8 GB DDR6 VRAM, and 16GB DDR5 RAM.
It will also be powered by Linux with SteamOS.
Meanwhile, the storage can cover 512GB or 2TB M.2, and you get to choose if you want to upgrade it.
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Release date and pricing
Although Valve has yet to announce a specific date of release and price range, the video game giant gave a vague “early 2026” and apparently “priced like a PC”.
Tech content creator Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips said he spoke with a Valve spokesperson, who hinted that the price will be on par with PCs.
“They did offer me one hint, though: they said that while they expect it to be very competitively priced with a PC, it will be priced like a PC, rather than like a console with games subsidising the upfront hardware purchase,” said Linus, as quoted by the Video Games Chronicle.
While the first release of Steam Machine in 2015 wasn’t very successful, this new gaming cube is highly anticipated by gamers.
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