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.
Having to replace batteries is impractical?
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.
Having to remove them to charge every 40 hours is.
For my index controllers, I just put them into the charging station.
How often are you gaming for 40 hours at a time?? Just charge them at the end of your sesh
Just have a second pair of batteries charged and ready so you can swap them out and keep playing while the first pair charges