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.

  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5·
    1 day ago

    It’s about 30% faster than the quest GPU wise or similar to a 1050 in shader performance, a bit behind a 1050 on some other things.

    It will probably be playing PC games at 720 to 1080p, upscaled and framengend to 4k at 90hz. That’s not terrible considering the power usage of the device. It has to run off of batteries. If it’s much over $500 it won’t be a huge hit, if it’s 650 or less, then it will likely become the best choice for VR but not break into the mainstream. The steam machine, if it can hit $500 would be very popular, although $500 is not really a lot of money these days with all the inflation.

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      2·
      1 day ago

      A 1050 can barely play modern games at 720p 30fps.

      Add on top of that the fact that the headset needs to:

      • drive 2x 2K displays
      • provide a 2K virtual interface rendered 2x, one for each eye
      • do this at 90-120hz
      • and still have left over capacity for running the games

      add the overhead of the various Proton translation layers and such, and that 30% extra GPU capacity is gone.

      • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        10 hours ago

        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.