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Valve have reworded a Steam blog post after its original, unsure-sounding text left open the possibility of further long-term delays to the new Steam Machine . …
Plans for a simultaneous trio of hardware launches seemingly dashed on the rocks of ongoing RAM shortages , Valve have decided to release the relatively unaffected Steam Controller refresh without Steam Machine or Steam Frame backup. …
… Like, the entire industry is dealing with these same challenges, just like we are, so we're all just trying to figure out how we can navigate it." You'll recall that the Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame were all revealed simultaneously last year, initially aiming for an also-concurr… …
The SteamOS 3.8.0 update is available to try now on the Preview branch, and it’s the first to bring "initial support for the upcoming Steam Machine hardware." That is, of course, merely a passing mention of Valve’s reborn PC box in the 3.8.0 patch notes . …
… Plug in a Deck, hook the dock up to a monitor or TV, and voila; you wouldn’t even know it wasn’t the identically SteamOS-running Steam Machine, save for the fact that it has about one-sixth the games performance, and is not currently trapped in RAM shortage hell. …
… You don’t need a Steam Machine, or indeed any SteamOS device, to have a good button-bashing time with the Steam Controller. …
… "And obviously every step of the way, if you look at our hardware projects over the years, you can draw a straight line from the original Steam Controller and Steam Machine to Steam Deck, to everything that we're announcing and shipping this year. …
… While such an addition hasn’t been confirmed by Gabe & Co. themselves, it was only a couple of months ago that Steam began optionally collecting anonymised framerate data ; I still think this began with Verified programmes for the Steam Deck , Steam Machine , and Steam Frame in mind, though that da… …
… As Valve engineer Steve Cardinali and designer Lawrence Yang told me in an interview, which also touched on the ongoing Steam Machine delays , there’s plenty about the Steam Controller that they’d like to put into a potential next-gen Steam Deck. …
… I also suspect that, pending the potential impact of those hardware shortages, anyone planning to buy a Steam Machine will still probably just buy a Steam Machine. …