Valve’s upcoming standalone VR headset Steam Frame is still shipping sometime this year, the company says, as it is now marked as “coming soon” on the Steam backend.
In a hardware news update last month, Valve announced that Steam Frame, Steam Machine, and Steam Controller are all being affected by the wider RAM and storage component shortage. Parts woes notwithstanding, Valve said in February that its goal was still to ship in the first half of 2026.
Now, according to the Steam backend (via SteamDB), Valve ha marked all three of its forthcoming products as “coming soon.”
Whether that means “soon soon” or “Valve soon” remains to be seen, although the company gave another vote of confidence in release plans in last week’s 2025 Year in Review.
I’m just gonna leave this here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
I just want the controller. Corporate bullshit fucking everything up.
I’m so hyped for this headset. Can’t wait to ditch my Quest 3 for native Steam functionality.
Putting some money aside each month to feel like I’m being responsible when buying a Steam Frame and Machine for the living room
Is that not the responsible way to budget for that sort of thing??
Anyone knows if the controllers will be rechargeable?
AA batteries are what it shows on the Steam Frame store page. Text is
Easy battery access
Each Steam Frame controller runs on a single AA battery, offering ~40 hours of play time.
I know this, but if I use rechargeable AA batteries, will I be able to charge them without removing them from the controllers? Like through usb-c?
Unlikely, as it would need to account for the different rechargable chemistries (including people trying to charge alkaline and the like).
The Logitech G700s did that, it was amazing
Third party manufacturers have a workaround for quest 3. They made their own batteries with their doors for their wireless charging dock.
Why is valve going into this highly impractical decision?
Having replaced the batteries in mg index controllers, because they died and wouldn’t charge anymore, this is a huge improvement. Replacing batteries in the index was seriously impractical. Required special tools to open the controllers, and batteries are glued in. For these i will just keep a bunch of spare rechargable batteries ready to go and swap as needed. This also solves the issue of getting replacement batteries, for the index controllees and also the tracking puks you have to resort to (at the time i was looking) a single seller on aliexpress. With AA it is a universal standard with lots of options.
Having to replace batteries is impractical?
Much rather, replace the batteries myself than having the controllers go bad at a later date.
I despised the quest pro controllers… Always losing sync, turning on and not charging when you want to use them.
Having to remove them to charge every 40 hours is.
For my index controllers, I just put them into the charging station.
How often are you gaming for 40 hours at a time?? Just charge them at the end of your sesh
Just have a second pair of batteries charged and ready so you can swap them out and keep playing while the first pair charges
You could probably rig a charger by running some wires from the battery in the controller to a NiMH charger, allowing you to charge and play at the same time, but if you don’t know what you’re doing I could see you overvolting the controllers and killing them, so it would probably be wiser to simply keep a spare set of batteries so you always have a pair charged up and ready to go at any time.
I would guess not. Don’t see any USB ports listed in the controllers specs and haven’t spotted anything that looks like an port on the controllers in the little videos they have of the Frame
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