Valve confirms the Steam Machine and Steam Frame will still both arrive this summer

Valve has confirmed that both its new Steam Machine living‑room PC and Steam Frame standalone VR headset will ship this summer and has expanded the Steam Deck‑style “Verified” program so players can see at a glance how games will run on the new hardware.

The details:

• In a Steam blog post, Valve said it is “expanding the Verified program to include Steam Machine and Steam Frame, both of which are shipping this summer,” after previously targeting early 2026 and then the first half of the year before RAM and storage shortages forced delays. However, no pricing info has been shared.
• The Steam Machine is a compact 6‑inch cube designed to sit under a TV, running SteamOS and promising up to 4K gameplay at a stable 60 FPS with ray tracing in many games thanks to a custom AMD Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU that Valve says is roughly six times more powerful than a Steam Deck.
• Meanwhile, the Steam Frame is a wireless standalone VR headset that runs SteamOS on ARM hardware, can play games natively or via Steam Link streaming, and is being positioned as a successor to Valve Index and a rival to Meta Quest‑style devices.
• As with Steam Deck Verified, games will be tested and labeled for Steam Machine and Steam Frame, indicating whether they hit expected performance targets and work correctly with controller input and SteamOS features out of the gate.