The Steam Machine and Steam Body are formally scheduled to land in summer season 2026, Valve introduced right now in a weblog publish about one thing else totally. There’s nonetheless no phrase on how a lot both little bit of {hardware} will value.
Valve made the large release-window reveal in a blog post concerning the Steam Machine and Steam Body being included within the Verified program, which launched with the Steam Deck and lets gamers know the way nicely video games will run on the hand-held. The Verified program will do the identical for the Steam Machine and Steam Body {hardware}. For Steam Machine, the necessities for a Verified badge are almost equivalent to the Steam Deck’s, Valve says.
As for the Steam Body, Valve writes, “Like Steam Deck Verified, the Steam Body Standalone Verified program focuses on the expertise clients can have with the machine out-of-the-box in standalone mode. The factors are comparable as nicely: the default graphics configuration must carry out nicely, textual content and UI components must be clear and legible on the built-in show, and the default controller configuration must work nicely with the Steam Body Controllers. The identical take a look at standards apply to each VR titles and non-VR titles.”
There’s been loads of hypothesis about the price of Valve’s {hardware} because it introduced the Steam Machine, Steam Body and Steam Controller in November 2025. The continued international reminiscence scarcity has dramatically pushed up costs of gaming consoles and PCs in 2026, and there isn’t any clear finish in sight. Xbox, Sony and Valve raised costs of their present {hardware} traces this yr by tons of of {dollars} every, with Valve upping the worth of the Steam Deck by as much as $300. Nintendo has plans to follow suit with the Swap 2.
The Steam Controller hit the market on Might 4 and it prices $99, which is a wonderfully affordable value for a well-crafted not-PC controller with touchpads. In fact, it solely has kilobytes of RAM, and as an alternative runs on cool haptic screams.
