Following on from the success of the Steam Deck, Valve is creating its very own ecosystem of products. The Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all set to launch in the new year. We’ve tried each of them and here’s what you need to know about each one.
“From the Frame to the Controller to the Machine, we’re a fairly small industrial design team here, and we really made sure it felt like a family of devices, even to the slightest detail,” Clement Gallois, a designer at Valve, tells me during a recent visit to Valve HQ. “How it feels, the buttons, how they react… everything belongs and works together kind of seamlessly.”
For more detail, make sure to check out our in-depth stories linked below:
Steam Frame: Valve’s new wireless VR headset
Steam Machine: Compact living room gaming box
Steam Controller: A controller to replace your mouse
Valve’s official video announcement.
So uh, ahem.
Yes.
Valve can indeed count to three.
They should lean into the porn games and sell a waist mounted haptic device call it the “Steam Plower”
We’ve already got
laptopfacetop terminology going on, so…Just affix a giant silicone ass to the faceplate, so you can have your face sat on, very uh, immersively.
… God, and to think, while Valve is doing this, Nintendo…
Nintendo re-released the Virtual Boy.
No real upgrades.
Just, here’s the Virtual Boy, again.
You know, that gimmicky flop from the mid 90s?
…smh…