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Valve Confirms Steam Frame is Still Coming This Year, Now Marked as "coming soon" (www.roadtovr.com)

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Valve’s upcoming standalone VR headset Steam Frame is still shipping sometime this year, the company says, as it is now marked as “coming soon” on the Steam backend.

In a hardware news update last month, Valve announced that Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all being affected by the wider RAM and storage component shortage. Parts woes notwithstanding, Valve said in February that its goal was still to ship in the first half of 2026.

Now, according to the Steam backend (via SteamDB), Valve ha marked all three of its forthcoming products as “coming soon.”

Whether that means “soon soon” or “Valve soon” remains to be seen, although the company gave another vote of confidence in release plans in last week’s 2025 Year in Review.

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[–] raicon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why is valve going into this highly impractical decision?

[–] flyingSock@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Having replaced the batteries in mg index controllers, because they died and wouldn't charge anymore, this is a huge improvement. Replacing batteries in the index was seriously impractical. Required special tools to open the controllers, and batteries are glued in. For these i will just keep a bunch of spare rechargable batteries ready to go and swap as needed. This also solves the issue of getting replacement batteries, for the index controllees and also the tracking puks you have to resort to (at the time i was looking) a single seller on aliexpress. With AA it is a universal standard with lots of options.

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Having to replace batteries is impractical?

[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Much rather, replace the batteries myself than having the controllers go bad at a later date.

I despised the quest pro controllers.. Always losing sync, turning on and not charging when you want to use them.

[–] raicon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Having to remove them to charge every 40 hours is.

For my index controllers, I just put them into the charging station.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

How often are you gaming for 40 hours at a time?? Just charge them at the end of your sesh

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Just have a second pair of batteries charged and ready so you can swap them out and keep playing while the first pair charges