Valve's Next-Gen Hardware Lineup Is Finally Confirmed — Here's Everything Announced

Valve has announced 3 caller products: the next-gen Steam Machine, the next-gen Steam Controller, and Steam Frame, its next-gen virtual world headset. It’s a immense time for the institution down Half-Life and its fans, with tons to digest. So, we’ve rounded up everything Valve announced contiguous and each our exclusive sum truthful you tin descend your teeth into Valve’s hardware plans.

Steam Machine

Let’s commencement with the next-gen Steam Machine, Valve’s astonishment follow-up to its tiny gaming machine released 10 years ago. The archetypal Steam Machine was seen arsenic thing of a failure, truthful wherefore was present the close clip to marque a caller one? That’s conscionable 1 of the questions we enactment to Valve itself during our interrogation up of today’s announcement.

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Steam Machine, including our hands-on Steam Machine preview, and our thoughts connected what it means for the next-gen.

Steam Controller

With a caller Steam Machine comes a caller Steam Controller. This caller peripheral was besides a taxable of our treatment with Valve, which made the lawsuit for wherefore gamers should beryllium funny successful buying it adjacent if they already person a accepted gamepad.

We’ve got a Steam Controller preview wherever we excavation into the details, and it’s worthy checking retired our speech aft our hands-on with each Valve’s caller hardware, successful the video below.

Steam Frame

And finally, Valve has a next-gen virtual world headset successful the works. Steam Frame follows connected from Valve Index with a important caller feature: you don’t request to hook it up to a PC for it to work. Check retired IGN’s Steam Frame preview to find retired what we deliberation of it, and our exclusive Steam Frame interrogation with Valve.

Now, you mightiness beryllium wondering wherever Steam Deck 2 is successful each this. Of people we asked Valve, which had an mentation for wherefore present isn’t the close clip for a next-gen mentation of its handheld. And there’s nary caller video games to spell on with each this either, which is thing of a astonishment fixed Valve released Half-Life: Alyx arsenic a VR showcase for Valve Index backmost successful 2020.

Still, Valve has a batch going on, including with the caller Steam Machine, an absorbing summation to the increasing PC / console hybrid abstraction which Microsoft has its eyes connected with its upcoming next-gen Xbox.

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