Announcing new Steam Hardware from Valve: Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame are coming in 2026. Just like Steam Deck, all three devices are optimized for Steam and designed for players to get even more out of their Steam library.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
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Thanks, I had not heard, but that makes sense. Hardware that sells a lot of units gets cheaper to manufacture as time goes by.
Yikes, that's not good about the bad screen door effect! I hope they fix it before release. I thought that this was a solved problem in VR, so I don't see why they wouldn't.
If it's a screen door problem, it means they had to cut costs somewhere. Adding in a battery, SoC, networking + wifi dongle isn't cheap at all. Adding tracking cameras isn't cheap either. Redesigning controllers and switching them to optical ain't cheap. And all that, coming in at less than an index system's launch price, with tariffs on top. I think that's just the price you pay for Questifying the index.
Personally, I'm really bummed out that they added in a bunch of mobile crap that will swiftly become outdated within five years. The benefit of the Index was that, aside from hardware becoming worn down, all the processing was offloaded to the computer's GPU, so buying a new GPU could instantly raise the bar for graphics and framerate for years to come.
Give me an Index 2 with high res screens that are stupidly high refresh rate, even higher resolution motion tracking, and optional wireless accessories.
Let's see what the real situation is with the alleged screen door effect. I searched around and the only first-hand report of it that I could find was from https://www.roadtovr.com/steam-frame-hands-on-valve-vr-headset-index-2/
On reading it, it sounds like much less of an issue than people are making it out to be, using the qualifier "somewhat" and reiterating that they need to spend more time looking through it to be sure (emphasis mine):
What do you mean by "a bunch of mobile crap", by the way? I don't see how the Frame won't benefit the same way from buying a new GPU?