Valve will ship the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in 2026. The company confirmed this directly to The Verge after a Friday blog post using the phrase 'we hope to ship in 2026' triggered immediate speculation about a delay.
The wording mattered. As recently as last month, Valve had explicitly maintained its first-half 2026 target for all three products. One softened phrase in one post was enough to contradict that. The ongoing RAM shortage is a named factor applying pressure to the timeline.
The full story is worth reading for what Valve actually said versus what its blog post implied, and what the memory crisis could still do to a shipping date Valve is now publicly defending twice in a single month.
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