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Announcing new Steam Hardware, coming in 2026!

Full specs and features confirmed.

Valve has announced a return to its Steam Machine PC / console hybrid hardware alongside a new version of the Steam Controller.

As part of a big day for Valve hardware announcements, Valve confirmed the next-gen Steam Machine and Steam Controller features and specs, but failed to announce one key piece of information: price.

We do know, however, that the Steam Machine comes as a 512GB model and 2TB model, and will ship in a bundle with Steam Controller as well as standalone at some point in 2026.

Next-gen Steam Machine Images

Specs wise, it has a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T CPU, a semi-Custom AMD RDNA3 GPU, and supports 4K gaming at 60 frames per second with FSR. Valve described the new Steam Machine as six times more powerful than Steam Deck, with 16GB DDR5 and 8GB GDDR6 VRAM. The full specs for the Steam Machine and Steam Controller are below.

It’s an interesting move from Valve considering the original Steam Machine range, released 10 years ago in November 2015, was considered a failure. The initial idea was to release a small form factor gaming computer that operated SteamOS and offered a home game console-like experience.

Valve also released a Steam Controller to support the release of the original Steam Machine, so it makes sense that it would release a next-gen Steam Controller to go alongside this new Steam Machine. But Steam Machine didn’t last long, and as interest dwindled, Steam pulled many models from the Steam store in 2018.