Valve Announces Next-Gen Steam Machine, Says It's 'Over 6x More Powerful Than Steam Deck,' but There's No Price Yet

Valve has announced a instrumentality to its Steam Machine PC / console hybrid hardware alongside a caller mentation of the Steam Controller.

As portion of a large time for Valve hardware announcements, Valve confirmed the next-gen Steam Machine and Steam Controller features and specs, but failed to denote 1 cardinal portion of information: price.

We bash know, however, that the Steam Machine comes arsenic a 512GB exemplary and 2TB model, and volition vessel successful a bundle with Steam Controller arsenic good arsenic standalone astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026.

Specs wise, it has a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T CPU, a semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 GPU, and supports 4K gaming astatine 60 frames per 2nd with FSR. Valve described the caller Steam Machine arsenic six times much almighty than Steam Deck, with 16GB DDR5 and 8GB GDDR6 VRAM. The afloat specs for the Steam Machine and Steam Controller are below.

It’s an absorbing determination from Valve considering the archetypal Steam Machine range, released 10 years agone successful November 2015, was considered a failure. The archetypal thought was to merchandise a tiny signifier origin gaming machine that operated SteamOS and offered a location crippled console-like experience.

Valve besides released a Steam Controller to enactment the merchandise of the archetypal Steam Machine, truthful it makes consciousness that it would merchandise a next-gen Steam Controller to spell alongside this caller Steam Machine. But Steam Machine didn’t past long, and arsenic involvement dwindled, Steam pulled galore models from the Steam store successful 2018.

The next-gen Steam Machine does not person a merchandise day oregon a price, some of which are cardinal pieces of accusation Valve is keeping nether wraps for now. But it’s an intriguing determination successful the discourse of the accrued absorption connected console / PC hybrids from assorted gaming hardware companies. Microsoft, for example, is acceptable to merchandise a next-gen Xbox that by each accounts is fundamentally a PC wearing a console’s clothing. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot however Valve entering the fray mixes things up.

Here's a remark from Valve brag Gabe Newell: "We've been ace blessed with the occurrence of Steam Deck, and PC gamers person continued asking for adjacent much ways to play each the large titles successful their Steam libraries. Our enactment implicit the years connected different hardware and adjacent much importantly connected SteamOS has enabled Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame to bash conscionable that."

We’ve got plentifulness much connected each Valve’s hardware announcements made today, November 12, and person a useful roundup truthful you don’t miss a thing. We visited Valve’s bureau up of the uncover to spell hands-on with Steam Machine and Steam Controller, and interrogation Valve to find retired wherefore it’s returned to the space. And if you’re wondering astir Steam Deck 2, we asked Valve astir that arsenic well.

Steam Machine features and specs:

Models

• 512GB exemplary and 2TB model
• Steam Machine volition vessel successful a bundle with Steam Controller and volition besides beryllium disposable standalone

Specs

• CPU: Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T up to 4.8 GHz, 30W TDP
• GPU: Semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs 2.45GHz max sustained clock, 110W TDP
• Supports 4K gaming astatine 60 FPS with FSR
• Ray tracing supported
• Over 6x much almighty than Steam Deck
• 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM
• 512 GB & 2 TB SSD models
• micro SD paper slot for expanded storage/ portable catalog
• Internal powerfulness supply, AC powerfulness 110-240V

1/0

• DisplayPort 1.4
• Up to 4K @ 240Hz oregon 8K@60Hz
• Supports HDR, FreeSync, and daisy- chaining
• HDMI 2.0
• Up to 4K @ 120Hz
• Supports HDR, FreeSync, and CEC
• Ethernet 1 Gbps
• USB-C 10 Gbps, 3.2 Gen 2
• 4x Type USB-A ports
• 2x USB 3 successful the front
• 2x USB 2 successful the rear
• 2x2 Wi-Fi 6E, dedicated BT antenna
• Integrated Steam Controller 2.4GHz radio

Other features

• Works with different controllers, accessories, and PC peripherals
• Wake with Steam Controller
• Runs SteamOS
• Familiar, gaming archetypal idiosyncratic experience
• Fast suspend / resume
• Steam unreality saves, and each the different Steam features you'd expect
• Customizable LED bar
• Personalize with colors and animation
• Reflect strategy presumption (e.g. downloads, booting, updating)

Steam Controller features and specs:

Works with immoderate instrumentality that runs Steam

• Windows / Mac / Linux PCs
• PC handhelds
• iOS / Android (with Steam Link)
• Steam Deck
• Steam Machine
• Steam Frame

Three ways to connect

• Steam Controller Puck
• Pre-paired, plug and play
• Proprietary wireless connection
• Low-latency (~8ms afloat end-to-end)
• 4ms polling complaint measured astatine 5m
• More unchangeable than Bluetooth
• Up to 4 Steam Controllers per Puck
• Bluetooth
• USB tethered play

Li-ion rechargeable battery

• 35hr+ play time
• Charge with Steam Controller Puck oregon USB

Magnetic thumbsticks (TMR)

• Improved responsiveness and reliability
• Capacitive touch

Grip sense

• Quick mode to activate/deactivate gyro
• Assignable input

HD haptics

• 4x haptic motors
• 2x LRA haptic motors successful trackpads for HD tactile feedback
• 2x High output LRA haptic motors successful grips for HD crippled haptics including rumble

Full input list

• ABXY, D-pad
• L/R triggers, L/R bumpers
• Magnetic thumbsticks (TMR)
• View / Menu / Steam / QAM buttons
• 4x assignable grip buttons
• 2x trackpads with haptic feedback
• Pressure sensitivity for configurable click strength
• 6-axis IMU
• Capacitive grip sense

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].