Steam Engine and Steam Frame Coming ‘This Summer’

Steam Machine and Steam Frame are officially slated to land in the summer of 2026, Valve announced today in a blog post about something else entirely. No word yet on how much any of the hardware pieces will cost.

Valve made the big release window reveal in a blog post aimed at developers about the inclusion of Steam Machine and Steam Frame in the Verified program, which starts with Steam Deck and lets players know how well games will run on the pocket. The Verified program will do the same for Steam Machine and Steam Frame hardware. For Steam Machine, the requirements for a Verified badge are almost identical to those of Steam Deck, Valve says.

Regarding Steam Frame, Valve writes: « Similar to Steam Deck Verified, the Steam Frame Standalone Verified program focuses on the experience customers will have with the device out of the box in standalone mode. The criteria are also similar: the default graphics configuration must work well, text and UI elements must be clear and legible on the built-in display, and the default controller configuration must work well with Steam Frame controllers. The same test criteria apply to VR titles as well as for non-VR titles. »

There has been much speculation about the price of Valve’s hardware since they announced the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in November 2025. The ongoing global memory shortage has dramatically increased the prices of gaming consoles and PCs in 2026, with no clear end in sight. Xbox, Sony, and Valve all raised the prices of their existing hardware lines this year by hundreds of dollars each, with Valve raising the price of the Steam Deck by as much as $300. Nintendo has plans to follow suit with the Switch 2.

The Steam Controller hit the market on May 4th and costs $99, which is a perfectly reasonable price for a well-made non-PC controller with touchpads. Of course, it only has kilobytes of RAM and instead runs on cool haptic screams.

In additional Steam news, the store homepage looks a little different today. Valve has released a refresh that aims to organize the chaos of all those game ads with wider, higher-resolution images and more detail for quick viewing at your fingertips. The wishlist and DLC sections are back, and there’s a new personal calendar with even more game promotions based on your play history. The discovery queue can now be seen in an overlay, and infinite scrolling has been enabled on the home page.