Overview
- Valve announced in a Steamworks blog post on Thursday that the Steam Machine living-room PC and Steam Frame VR headset are “shipping this summer” and that both will join the Steam Verified program.
- The Verified expansion uses the same out‑of‑box criteria as Steam Deck Verified and will show players which games run well on each device without extra user setup.
- Valve says it is retesting titles that failed Deck requirements to see if they meet Machine standards and that the Machine’s verification rules are nearly identical to the Deck’s baseline performance targets.
- Developers are told to use Steam Deck testing as the practical compatibility baseline because Steam Machine developer kits are not widely available right now.
- Valve gave no launch dates or prices and warned that global DRAM, NAND and VRAM shortages have pushed component costs higher, a market dynamic that plus recent Steam Deck price hikes raises expectations that the new hardware will be relatively expensive.