A Steam Deck Console is Coming Soon… 

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Look, I don't *need* a Steam Deck Console...buuuut I want one!

Valve's ready to capitalize on PC gaming platform. Not surprised. Windows Gaming has been filled with bloatware and Apple Gaming has been so scarce. Seeing the success of the Deck, really is defining what direction Valve is heading. I'm here for it.

I have 2 Steam links, 2 Steam controllers and a Steam Deck, my body is ready Volvo pls. deliver

This is what I love about Valve's hardware efforts - even though most of this soon to be announced hardware isn't something I'm in the market for (I already have a main PC and a living room PC for gaming, and an Index), I'd KILL for a Steam Controller 2. It feels like all their efforts are such that their releases improve gaming as a whole for so many people, even people who aren't directly buying the thing.

Valve knocked it out of the park so thoroughly with the Deck I'll unquestioningly buy whatever is next from them. My Deck gets heavy use daily and is quite possibly my favourite console ever at this point.

Knowing how Valve have worked so closely with AMD to get a custom APU that punches above its weight, I don’t doubt that they could have something that allows FSR 3 to pump high refresh video to a headset.

I really hope they do a refresh of the steam controller. I still use mine daily and am afraid of the day it stops working!

A steam deck console? I'm all for it. That and the nintendo switch 2 will be my go to for gaming.

Id totally buy steam console. I was considering building my own and loading it up with chimera os on it. but if vavle is going to do it themselves i'll wait and see what they do

I am so glad that the deck has done so well and they are doing more. I was afraid when they did their original steamboxes that didn't take off

So the steam machine is back? What a time to be alive

Hopefully it is coming soon and it will have an enormous bonus feature when you connect your steam deck to it 💫🙌🥇💥 364 days no alcohol 🏆

What i think valve can really assist PC gamers with is multiplayer games. I am so happy that PC gaming today has become more and more accomidating to people who want to play something split screen on a TV. I really hope this opens that market up further, and we see more splitscreen couch games come to steam.

If this is true I wonder if it'd mean we'll get a new Steam Controller. I'd love a Steam Controller 2 which has the same build quality and form factor/layout of the Deck.

1080p @ 60fps would be sweet. Im sure with better thermal management it could work. And please steam, add OCuLink

The original Steam Machines were a fantastic idea, the crucial mistake in my mind was thinking that third parties were going to charge even remotely relevant pricing.

Hope a new Steam controller is in our near future. I have held off buying one on Ebay in the hopes of an updated version so I can pair it with my Steam Deck. Thanks for sharing!

What a perfect opportunity for more first party single player experiences from Valve!

Would be cool if it could also be used as an external console for the deck (directly and not only by streaming).

New set up box makes a lot more sense to me than a new Deck honestly. We've been needing a Steam Controller that has parity with the steam decks input for a while, and it would really be dope got everyone while not capitalizing on their own handheld market.

I've been predicting something like this since announcement of the steam deck. I didn't think about them trying to boost their VR hardware with this new (hypothetical) box though.

Yes! Sounds great! I have been looking into a small PC I could sit under my TV. I want to be able to leave it on for remote play. Then when I am in front of the TV, I can play on the big screen. With Steams excellent Cloud saves, it would be a great Steam Deck companion too!!!

I've been sort of planning a TV set top box, but with the Lenovo Legion Go & a eGPU. Installing Bazzitte or Chimera of course. I'm not really interested with VR currently. I may keep an out for this though as time goes on.

Everytime these Valve leak videos go viral, for some reason, I always picture Gabe Newell sitting back in his chair and chuckling to himself...I have no idea where that is coming from...I guess kind of reminds me of Santa Claus? :D

Great content, you got a new sub. I had to go look at my Years of Service in Steam and my date was December 13th 2003.

I've been playing with linux for a couple of years now to make my own "Steam Machines" over the years. Constantly tinkering and rebuilding over time. Having an official valve one would be AMAZING, especially with VR, I would TOTALLY buy Valve's VR stuff.

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Legit can't wait for the Charlotte store. Gonna be a lot closer of a drive to scalp parts!

This could be huge for the Linux/pc gaming sector, I've been gaming on Ubuntu Linux with proton in steam. I've been playing Armor Core 6 as of late, no issues.

I think a VR console is a great idea. both of my kids have dedicated low/mid range PC's for their Oculus headsets. I also have a dedicated mid range PC just for VR stuff. to be able to do it in the living room with a dedicated console for under 1k would be awesome!! Oh and you have me by 11 months on your steam account. My first purchase: Nov 13, 2004 - Half Life 2 Retail I remember being so annoyed that I had to sign up for some damn steam online account to play the HL2 box game I purchased at BestBuy!! now I can't imaging living without Steam! :)

Thunderbolt 5/USB5 makes more hopeful that the eventual Steam Deck or a rival handheld will have egpu support, without the bottleneck, and without a propriety port like Asus. I know GPD has occulink but I don't want to risk it with the amount of money I'd have to pay and then wait and hope I get a good unit.

We need a MicroCenter in the PNW. The Fry's near Seattle closed down, and we have no physical store outside of Best Buy for stuff like that.

thats actually awesome, we have been needing a steam machine style PC for years again, I just hope with the hardware they at least allow users to upgrade the GPU say like a 45 degree PCI-e slot on the MOBO for GPU to be low profile and my 1st game was Arma 2 and some DLC so I couple play the Dayz mod in 2014.

This gives me hope about a new category of product I was expecting to be released with Pimax Portal Station which promised that along the handheld that is released already. It would be a bigger screen to attach to the device and connect with a umpc via HDMI transmitter of some sort. But the thing is you would probably lose the VR capability of the handheld unless wired to the umpc. Even with the smaller company such as Pimax this was so fulfilling to my gaming needs now with Valve this would make me have goosebumps similar to the ones I had after following GPD devices for so long and suddenly hear about the steampal rumours

The left shoulder button just got stuck on my old steam controller so I'm definitely in the market for 4 controllers (stupidly just bought one and got family) and a box to connect to my TV.

I remember back in 2018 seeing the console up for sale on steam. It didn't do well from what I remember. Glad they worked on it and brought it back.

It's very interesting to see the possibility of a Steam console beside the Steam Deck. The Deck already nearly got me, if there's a new whole system and it works out for me I wonder what I'll do with my PC. Unless the console comes with a full release of their SteamOS and all I have to do is re-install with it then I could just switch my OS.

I have a second PC at my TV. Still running windows on it however, but I love using the new big picture mode on it by default.

I was a Playstation player for 20 years but had been flirting with the idea of pc gaming but didn't like gaming on Windows. Wasn't a fan of constant interruptions from other programs. Then a buddy of mine got a steam deck and let me mess around on it and I loved it. And then I came across ETA Prime on here and his video putting the steam deck os on a normal pc and that's what I ended up doing. It's been a year now with my "Steam Machine" and I haven't looked back

So sad. The new hardware now turns out to be the Steam Deck OLED, not this console box 😭

Steam Machine was my gateway into pc gaming. I’d be down to get another in a sff again.

if it is a HTPC-like device I hope that also means steam controller 2 gets released. I wasn't for the original and its track pads, but now I'm all for it. With the steam deck giving me a RSI often called gamer thumb, its track pads are the only way I can get a decent amount of gaming in on it(other than kb/m, never had this issue with xb controller on PC though oddly enough). Though I wish the deck had the bowl shape and slight tactile shapes like the original controller to give you a better idea of where your thumb sits.

So basically it's a Steam Machine 2, i am down for that.

When Deck first got announced an ex Valve dev mentioned (on resetera IIRC) the last HW project they were doing was a living room console with PCVR support. So this kind of lines up.

I think a "VR Console" could work for Valve, since it being a "VR Console" answers the question of how Valve could provide a device that has enough of a purpose to justify getting alongside, or in contrast to other TV oriented devices (such as traditional consoles). What made the Steam Deck so inviting compared to the original Steam Machines was not only that the Deck offerred a substantial library of games on release that people are interested in playing (due to Proton), and that the Deck was accessible enough in how it's provided for people to just get one (as only Valve sells it), but also because the Steam Deck was in a unique position of being the only other affordable device to exist, that offers the ability to play the games that the Switch (the only somewhat comparable device available during the time of the Deck's release at a similar price point) cannot play (stuff like AAA as released on the PS4/Xbox one, and sone newer releses, as well as indies that were never ported), and allows those games to be played portably (which wasn't able to be done accessibly). That offers great value on it's own, with a hint of uniqueness compared to the alternative devices in a similar sphere at launch. A "VR console" would have the same general set of advantages of the Deck (sold subsidized to an extent, accessible to buy since there's a single device sold from a single company, and access to a large library of games that are actually interesting to buy due to Proton allowing regular PC versions), but would have the unique worth of focusing on VR titles that other comparable devices (like the PS5 or Xbox Series) doesn't priotitize or focus on. That provides the unique factor that makes it worth getting compared to the available alternatives.

Valve is already partnering with AMD for their SteamDeck chips, so I don't see why they couldn't increase their collaboration and start production of next-gen-level chips for their standalone console, I think AMD has everything ready to make it happen. If that would be the case, and the price would be competitive to existing "next gen" consoles Valve might seriously shake up the whole console market with increasing subscription costs and pay-to-play-online nonsense.

My first game was Magicka back in 2012 so gotta represent us Swedes! Happy birthday to Steam, here's to plenty more good times for everyone 🥳

😂😂😂 You and RU-vid read my mind! I literally loaded up RU-vid to see if anyone had made a custom Steam home console!

Oh woow from 2003 on Steam! I was always a console player, but I bought my Steam Deck in October last year, that was also the date I made a Steam account. And indeed I have no idea what I have missed. But if you don't know what you have missed, you can't miss it. 😅 In the last year I have bought a lot of games and had and still have a great time on the Deck. And yes, I hope for a new Deck, with maybe a bigger screen (without the black sides for an example), OLED, better battery life, and upgraded hardware. But we still have to wait of what it is going to be. 🤷

I think the issue with suggesting the quest could connect to a steam console is that if it runs Linux I don’t think you’d have the Oculus app, which is what the Quest uses to do wireless VR, if I’m not mistaken?

My first Steam purchase was Half Life 2, my first Steam download was CounterStrike 1.6. I've had Steam since day 1 and have some trophy or something for it that keeps track of how many years you have the account.

Connecting my Deck to the living room TV has been a game changer. I can't afford a Steam Deck dock, but I did get a usb-c/hdmi hub from Walmart that let's me play co op PS3, PS2, Switch, PC, etc games without dragging my whole gaming PC out of my room. It's also a great platform for Xbox gamepass cloud gaming which has become great. It's almost unreal that I can play 3 different 100gb+ games in a matter of a few minutes with solid performance on all of them. I would only draw the line at online FPS games as the latency is noticeable when streaming something that response heavy.

The first thing I bought on Steam was complete Valve pack in a sale, lol. It was interesting times with those mega publisher pack sales.

I can see steam deck or it’s next gen successor powering a style of vr on a chest harness. Something that sits flush against your chest that can flip down to access controls and sits flush to not get in the way of your arms. Multiple ports for hot swapping batteries like magazine pouches. Hand controller holsters on the side of next green steam deck has couch like detachable controller then even better, harness only holds all these separate components

I like your take on a possible set top box. I tried various solutions including the original Steam Link but none of them worked all that well. I wasn't impressed with the launch of the Xbox Series / PS5 and sat on the sidelines for a while then it hit me that everything is now standardized and all of it is X86. For example the XB controller, hdmi, PCM audio, etc. So I decided to just plug in a moderate tower into my TV and yeah sure enough it works great. The only wonky thing is Windows so I use a small Keyboard and mouse but otherwise it's great. But if Valve can do something that's really easy and straightforward, I could see it really take off. The consoles are 3 years old now and roughly equivalent to a Ryzen 5 / 2070 so a set top could easily be equivalent or maybe even more powerful than the current gen consoles.

I get the point of this, but personally I have no use for a Steam Console when I can use my Steam Deck docked. I am looking forward to purchasing the Controllers separately but personally the LegionGO with ChimeraOS seems like the complete package I was hoping for. The Steam Decked or Steam Docked or whatever is a bit strange to release among Consoles, perhaps they are trying to simply the PC Market for the Household entirely not just Handhelds. Dunno.

This is a cool idea, been looking at a gaming pc now that I have a steam library, deck doesn’t look great running newer games on my 75” 4k tv

I've been wanting to get out of the Meta ecosystem ever since Facebook bought Oculus after I had just purchased an original Quest. I was REALLY hoping Valve would make a standalone VR set like the Quest, so if this new device (or pair of devices) fits the bill, I'll DEFINITELY jump ship from Meta to Valve.

Wow so close to home.

Slap adding an oculink port or thunderbolt would add an easy path to upgradability.

Steamcontroller or affordable vr headset would be interesting for me. I already own a highend PC (built 2023) and a ps5 as well as a steamdeck. Dont see myself replacing those.

Something that is also interesting is what is coming with SteamOS 3.5, VRR and HDR, those features are definitely must have for a Steam console.

steam box didnt work the first time around what makes them think it will work this time?

My first thought was a Steam Deck Pro. A kinda beefier Steam Deck which is targeted to release in 2024 alongside the Switch 2. It could run VR, unlike other portable devices, and that's huge. I don't believe it's a console like the steam machine or a VR headset at all.

I haven't touched my launch day (sort of) Oculus Rift for about 5 years. If Steam did offer a VR and console package, I'd be all over it. Do it, Gabe!

i've been waiting for steam controller 2 for years. if it has two sticks, gyro, dual stage triggers and at least the right touchpad, i'm ready to pay a pretty penny for it

I have a Steam Link and a Steam controller and both see regular use. The Link sees the most use, though. If Valve brought those back, I highly recommend that everyone picks one up. Especially for couch co-op games with friends.

It's probably not going to happen, but I'd love if there was a modular steam console. The base unit would be able to last for a long time without going out of date, and anyone who gets discontent with how certain games run on it can just purchase upgrades to certain components. I don't know how logistically possible that would be, but I would personally love if that were the case.

Isn't the Van Gogh APU capable of 20w TDP? Maybe that's the thing here. With no battery and having thermal room the APU can go further. Maybe more RAM (and overclocked) could also help with the performance on a Steam Box.

Love the content, Keep it up!

I don't need a Valve set top box, though I think it's a great idea. Personally I've either got the Deck docked, or my PC. Don't need something in the middle. However, I would kill for a Steam Controller 2!

Wow. Just checked my first game on steam, good Ole unreal tournament 3 black. Still a fun game to play from time to time and works perfectly on my deck.

It would be awesome, I personally do not like handhelds, I love the technology from the deck but not the handheld form. A console / portable pc does sounds good for me, and could trigger year of the linux desktop XD

These machines and conveyors really look like Aperture Science.

My first steam activation was Half Life 2 Game of the Year Edition. Between 2005 and the end of 2011 it looks like I only used Steam for 3 games (technically more, since one of those was The Orange Box), because I guess at the time I was mostly console gaming, and I was still buying most of my PC games on physical discs. 2012 is when I had my first proper gaming computer and the first game I bought was the Crysis: Maximum Edition bundle, and that year alone I bought 27 games, so it's safe to say 2012 is the year that I became a true Steam user.

So will the new VR headset come out with the console or later? Edit: ok you commented on this later - not sure if VR headset might be bundled or is maybe not ready yet.

I've been itching for a new Steam Machine ever since I had the Alienware. If valve gives us a SteamOS one with a nice GPU, I'm sold. The HX99G seems plausible, but I'm waiting on valve to say something.

Thanks for the heads up on finding the licenses. I checked and I can see that I added the Half-Life Platinum Pack (NOT dubiously acquired... ;) on November 9, 2004. Not quite as early as you, but WAY earlier than I thought...

my first steam game was the orange box

I'm very interested in what Valve's new VR offering will be. Hopefully it has OLED displays and not LCD.

As long as it’s actually an itx computer that would technically allow upgrades, I’d be super stoked.

My first game was Portal on PC because it was free! But my first actual purchase was a neat little indie title called Bleed!

Ive been waiting for someone to do this since I got a Quest 2. If they do release it then for me it would need to support existing VR headsets and not be locked to a Valve VR headset.

If this true, then we could potentially get a actual Valve Console with a controller and a VR headset which I could image it be anywhere from $500-$800 i think it be great to not just be able to play your games on steam from pc or steamdeck but also on a massive TV screen. It be great to play with someone in person on a valve console if their going wireless and bluetooth and such. One thing i would love to have added if possible is emulators running with it out of the box but i know that is asking too much

Must be some software is not just ready yet if it's new hardware. There was picture of a console looking like didn't know was just dev kit for steam deck or something other but look like a console.

A Steamdeck in a Box the size of the Wii and sell it for $199.99 and it would be a smash hit.

My first Steam game was Counter Strike Source in 2010 that a player I was playing Halo PC online with gifted me. Was 13 years ago but feels like 33 years ago.

I am so hype on this Linux console of Valve!

Hope you feel better homie! You are dedicated!

eh in set top box wish they would use at least newer gen chip as putting steam deck one in its already behind other devices so if they used something similar to z1 extreme (or better yet custom z1 extreme with much bigger gpu like in consoles) it would do a lot better assuming its like $399 (maybe not include controller but a separate buy since most people already have some sort of controller). What would be the coolest if it came with a regular pci-e slot that you could just plop a gpu on if you wanted to upgrade.

The steam controller definitely has its strong points. if they release a version 2 with the whole steam deck layout ill be happy.

What I’m really wondering is what is the incentive (if any) to buy a steam console if you already have a steam deck with a dock? Will they interact together? Can you do multiplayer in the same room with one person on the console and another on the deck? Will the console have higher storage space or better visuals? With the steam deck selling so well, what’s the expected reaction to this hardware from ppl that just shelled out $300-600 on a steam deck?

My account is pretty much as old as yours and for the same reason. My account is now 18yo and my first game was the Half-Life 2 Retail Box which I got in 2005. I'm fairly certain I still have it somewhere in my things. Blast from the past!

I want something that can stream to my Deck painlessly unlike my PC. That means support for suspend resume. Foveated rendering would make it possible to play high end VR too.

I'm a bit doubtful of this since I really doubt they'll release a new controller without back buttons.

Im still hoping they release a linux based gaming laptop with the steam deck chip. Maybe a 12 inch something like the old x200 series lenovo laptops. I know it almost certainly won't happen but fucking hell id love that.

"Oddworld Abes Oddysee and Exoddus package" Ah a man of culture I see

Got my first steam game on August 31 2006, it was half life 2 episode on. Been buying steam games ever since and loving the platform

I have noticed while playing my steam deck that Linux is very resource friendly, if steam made updated cpu and gpu mobo for the deck as a upgrade option I would buy it.