"Shipping early 2026 in every region where the Steam Deck is sold today, Valve's new living room box is best thought of as a far more powerful, stationary version of the same technology. It's a 6-inch cube that runs Windows games, but without Windows at the helm. Like the Steam Deck, it runs Valve's Linux-based SteamOS operating system, using a compatibility layer called Proton to make games think they're running on Windows and translate their API calls."
"But the Steam Machine has two things the Steam Deck does not: raw power, and the promise that you'll never be waiting around for a game to update. "The Steam Machine has the ability to keep all your software, your OS, your games, and your cloud saves updated in the background ... so the games are always ready for you to play," says Valve hardware engineer Yazan Aldehayyat."
"If that sounds like a huge compromise, you should know that countless happy Steam Deck users disagree. The Steam Deck has dramatically outsold Windows handhelds through word of mouth alone, because Linux now runs Windows games better than Windows, and because Windows is far from the Steam Deck's pick-up-and-play console experience. I've heard many lapsed gamers say the Steam Deck brought them back."
Valve's new Steam Machine will ship early 2026 in every region where the Steam Deck is currently sold. The device is a 6-inch cube designed as a stationary, higher-powered counterpart to the Steam Deck that runs Windows games on Valve's Linux-based SteamOS using Proton compatibility. The product promises greater raw performance and automatic background updates for OS, games, and cloud saves to eliminate waiting for updates. Valve is also introducing a redesigned Steam Controller and the Steam Frame headset with the hardware release. The Steam Deck's commercial success is cited as evidence that Linux-based compatibility can deliver a console-like experience.
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