When Valve surprise announced its Steam Hardware lineup last year, the company didn"t have any pricing or release date information for any of the devices. But it did say that those details will be coming in early 2026. Now, it"s early 2026, and Valve is back with an update, and it"s not good news.
In an official blog post aimed at answering some of the most asked questions about its hardware lineup, Valve said that while its "first half of the year" launch goal has not changed, it cannot announce pricing and launch dates just yet.
"When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now," said the company. "But the memory and storage shortages you"ve likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then."
With critical parts being hard to come by, it said that pricing and shipping schedules are still up in the air and cannot be pinned down just yet. The shortage has especially affected the Steam Machine and Steam Frame, the devices that essentially ship with an entire computer inside them.
The Steam Machine is Valve"s answer to a plug-and-play, console-like experience for the living room. It touts a semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6-core/12-thread CPU and RDNA3 GPU with 28 CUs, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM. The box is described as having six times the horsepower of the Steam Deck. Valve said in the original announcement that players will be able to game at 4K 60FPS using FSR with this system.
"We have work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates that we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of those things can change," added the company. "We will keep you updated as much as we can as we finalize those plans as soon as possible."
It"s unclear if Valve is planning to stagger the releases of each piece of the hardware trio, depending on what parts it can get ahold of. If the global part shortages continue, we might see the new Steam Controller roll out first.