{"id":893242,"date":"2026-06-26T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/893242\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:25:11","slug":"valve-deletes-4k-60fps-claim-from-steam-page-after-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/893242\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Deletes 4K 60FPS Claim From Steam Page After Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back before it launched, Valve was promising \u201c4K gaming at 60 FPS<\/a>\u201d on its new Steam Machine gaming PCs. That claim was just deleted from the device\u2019s hardware page. The change comes after early reviewers struggled to get certain games running at higher resolutions on anything but medium settings.<\/p>\n

It was a bold claim and one that made the Steam Machine<\/a> seem like it was punching well above its weight. An affordable gaming rig that delivers high visual performance and fidelity thanks to AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution? Where do I sign up? \u201cIn our testing the majority of Steam titles play great at 4K 60FPS with FSR on Steam Machine,\u201d Valve wrote in a blog update<\/a> earlier this year. \u201cThat said, there are some titles that currently require more upscaling than others, and it may be preferable to play at a lower framerate with VRR to maintain a 1080p internal resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After backlash, Valve has changed their statement on 4K gaming at 60 FPS to 4K gaming on the Steam Machine page (before and after) \ud83d\ude2d pic.twitter.com\/I8yH18f3QS<\/a><\/p>\n

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Valve was clear that not every game would perform up to that benchmark, but backlash following the performance some Steam Machine reviewers experienced actually led the company to nuke that language entirely. The Steam Hardware Updates account<\/a> noticed the alteration to the hardware listing on June 25. And sure enough, an archived version of the page reveals the \u201c4K gaming at 60 FPS\u201d promise was there as recently as June 24<\/a>, back when everyone was still entering the lottery<\/a> to try to be one of the lucky few to actually win a pre-order for the gaming PCs.<\/p>\n

Reviewers from Linus Tech Tips to Digital Foundry<\/a> have generally found the Steam Machine\u2019s performance to be around that of a PS5. Most games on Sony\u2019s console can either run at 60FPS or at a close to native 4K resolution, but not both. And it turns out many modern games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Forza Horizon 6\u00a0aren\u2019t able to hit both on Steam Machine either. Even when upscaled from lower resolutions, reviewers have found it hard to hit a consistent 60FPS on anything but mid to lower graphical settings.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t make the Steam Machine a bad piece of hardware. By all accounts its a superbly designed and engineered living-room gaming device. But at $1,050<\/a>, every bit of performance matters, and it\u2019s not clear that the Steam Machine excels in that department as much as some might have hoped, at least for the price tag. Though with console prices going up as well, it might look more competitive compared to a $700 PS5 if that\u2019s what Sony\u2019s console ends up costing this holiday season.<\/p>\n