{"id":814568,"date":"2026-03-09T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/814568\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:45:19","slug":"valve-confirms-steam-frame-is-still-coming-this-year-now-marked-as-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/814568\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Confirms Steam Frame is Still Coming This Year, Now Marked as &#8220;coming soon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s upcoming standalone VR headset Steam Frame is still shipping sometime this year, the company says, as it is now marked as \u201ccoming soon\u201d on the Steam backend.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/group\/45479024\/view\/625565405086220583?l=english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hardware news update<\/a>\u00a0last 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,\u00a0Valve said in February that its goal was still to ship in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to the Steam backend (via <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/4165890\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SteamDB<\/a>), Valve ha marked all three of its forthcoming products as \u201ccoming soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether that means \u201csoon soon\u201d or \u201cValve soon\u201d remains to be seen, although the company gave another vote of confidence in release plans in\u00a0last week\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/groups\/steamworks\/announcements\/detail\/528746884222682053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Year in Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/steam-frame-hands-on-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/steam-frame-hands-on-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/a>Photo by Road to VR<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shared recently that there have been challenges with memory and storage shortages, but we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalize our plans,\u201d the company says.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Valve still hasn\u2019t indicated prices for Steam Frame, Steam Machine, or Steam Controller.\u00a0At its November reveal,\u00a0Valve told\u00a0Road to VR\u00a0that it expects Steam Frame to be \u2018cheaper than Index\u2019, although the company didn\u2019t qualify its pricing logic. This could put it somewhere between $1,000 (Index headset, controllers, SteamVR trackers) and $500 (Index headset only).<\/p>\n<p>As for Steam Machine, YouTuber \u2018Skill Up\u2019 confirmed with Valve back in November the PC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yvu66Y2VLq8?t=3897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won\u2019t be subsidized like a console<\/a>. Alternatively,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iHkBcqW-ExY?t=702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linus Tech Tips<\/a>\u00a0has suggested the lowest configuration could fetch somewhere around $700, which was based on a custom PC built on comparable parts.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, we expect a \u2018buy now\u2019 button to unceremonious appear on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/steamframe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Steam Frame page<\/a>\u00a0at some point, as Valve isn\u2019t exactly known for the typical sort of fanfare seen with other companies.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more Steam Frame news?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/steam-frame-hands-on-valve-vr-headset-index-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valve Unveils Steam Frame VR headset to Make Your Entire Steam Library Portable<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0Valve shows off Steam Frame, the standalone headset that can stream and natively play your entire Steam library\u2014with only a few caveats right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/steam-frame-hands-on-valve-vr-headset-index-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hands-on: Steam Frame Reveals Valve\u2019s Modern Vision for VR and Growing Hardware Ambitions<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0We go hands-on with Valve\u2019s latest and greatest VR headset yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/wp-admin\/valve-no-first-party-vr-game-in-development-half-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Valve Says No New First-party VR Game is in Development:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Valve launched Half-Life: Alyx (2020) a few months after releasing Index, but no such luck for first-party content on Steam Frame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roadtovr.com\/valve-steamos-third-party-vr-headsets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Valve is Open to Bringing SteamOS to Third-party VR Headsets<\/strong><\/a>: Steam Frame is the first VR headset to run SteamOS, but it may not be the last.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/valve-steam-frame-dev-kits-vr-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Valve Plans to Offer Steam Frame Dev Kits to VR<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Developers<\/strong><\/a>: Steam Frame isn\u2019t here yet; Valve says it needs more time with developers first so they can optimize their PC VR games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/valve-steam-machine-controller-frame-compatibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Valve Announces SteamOS Console and New Steam Controller, Designed with Steam Frame Headset in Mind:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Find out why Valve\u2019s new SteamOS-running Console and controller will work seamlessly with Steam Frame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/steam-frame-vs-quest-3-specs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steam Frame vs. Quest 3 Specs: Better Streaming, Power &amp; Hackability:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Quest 3 can do a lot, but can it go toe-to-toe with Steam Frame?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadtovr.com\/steam-frame-vs-valve-index-specs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Steam Frame vs. Valve Index Specs: Wireless VR Gameplay That\u2019s Generations Ahead :<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Valve Index used to be the go-to PC VR headset, but the times have changed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s upcoming standalone VR headset Steam Frame is still shipping sometime this year, the company says, as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-814568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116199760027506748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}