Valve introduces Steam Deck

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Rust Troony said:
Love that the steam controller has magnetic joystick, but the steam machine not getting delayed for a RDNA 4 gpu is a bummer, raytracing is going to be ass and no true FSR 4 support. As longs as its actually less than $600 though i guess it would be cool.
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Maybe we'll see a slight hardware revision like the release of the OLED deck, with the LCD deck taking up the less expensive lesser specced entry level hardware.
 
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I was really annoyed that I didn't manage to snag one of the old steam controllers before they went away. Not sold on the form factor of this new one yet but if it's comfortable and doesn't have any immediate glaring component issues out of the gates, then I'll probably get one if for no other reason than I'm sick of the dualshock 4 and everything I've tried to replace it with has been even worse.
 
My fast thoughts:

1. What, no headphone jack?
2. If Steam Deck is the 720p30 baseline device, this is 1080p60. The marketing page says "4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR" lol.
3. The FSR4 INT8 code release and AMD's splitting off of RDNA 1/2 from RDNA 3/4 drivers makes it highly likely that Steam Machine will get official FSR4 support (eventually).
4. GPU is between an RX 7400 and RX 7600. It's the 28 CUs of the RX 7400, but running at comfortable 110W TDP instead of 55W.
5. These should be cheap parts. That's the Phoenix2 cost-down mobile chip, and slightly disabled RX 7600 is a budget GPU on TSMC N6.

Total Annihilation said:
From my crosspost, I'm only worried about a possible VRAM issue for the (new) Steam Machine:
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A lot of games are still fine with 8 GB at 1080p. Something can usually be done to make it work (lowering the settings).

People have gotten FSR4 to work on the Steam Deck, and it's likely to be officially supported by AMD on RDNA3/3.5 devices. So I think it's likely that Steam Machine will be heavily using FSR4 when needed.
 
anti SJW said:

New Steam controller, Steam machine, and Steam VR called steam frame announced. All coming early 2026.
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I still have and still use my original Steam Controller, but this new one looks cool and GN says they’ll have exact compatibility between Steam Deck and New Steam Controller mappings which would be a big improvement. All of the hype depends on price, which will probably be higher than people want for every item mentioned, but the hardware does all look good.
 
Any truth to this? Too funny

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So funny tyler mcvicker had to walk away the second this dropped

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I do like how the new vr headset doesn't require wires and im guessing those sensor stand anymore? The one part that seems cool and interesting is you can get a adapter for your pc so if you want more power for the vr you can wirelessly connect it to your pc. which can be good for more demanding vr games.

my question though is how much will it cost? Cause Quest 3 was under 1k at release right?
 
Paul-Denton said:
Gaben please release me from this windows hell I wanna run SteamOS on my machine to felt Bill Gates
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Install Mint now and forget about Windows. If you can't do that, enjoy thousand years of Windows hell since that's all you deserve if you're unwilling to learn. You can switch to Linux now and could for years. If you didn't yet, you don't want to switch period.
 
Paul-Denton said:
Gaben please release me from this windows hell I wanna run SteamOS on my machine to felt Bill Gates
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Nvidia needs to make their drivers actually work first. If you do already have a amd gpu and cpu you can install SteamOS right now, Valve isn't doing anything special anymore like it used to.
 
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