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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I think you would only be using this for either games designed for VR or older games, and also be using FSR and frame gen. This is actually a perfect use case for those.
You can also stream games wirelessly from your PC which is another cool feature. That is how most people will probably use it. The native running of apps is just a cool bonus for people I guess.
If it's not too expensive I might get one and get my daughters one. Probably a very cool little device.
Proton also doesn't add much overhead and in many cases it can run games faster then windows, especially if it's not debloated and very lean windows. Games that use modern rendering backends like Vulcan only need CPU translation. The CPU is pretty fast on this device, but it's only going to be good for certain things. You could definitely play Minecraft and older titles, like space engineers and stuff.