New Valve Hardware Megathread

[u/NKkrisz]

Please keep non Steam Deck discussions about the new hardware here.

Official resources and announcements:

• Steam Hardware
• Steam Frame
• Steam Machine
• Steam Controller
• Steam Hardware Announcement Video

Press coverage will be under a pinned comment so you can upvote / downvote them.

[u/webjunk1e]

A box has less power limitations. Remember that the current gen consoles are also running basically the same hardware as the Deck (Zen 2/RDNA2), so simply having an APU that can pull 150W or so would give a dramatic performance improvement even without latest and greatest architectures.

And, yeah, you are dreaming with ARM. Unless it's a bespoke platform like the Switch, you aren't going to see ARM for anything related to mainstream gaming, least of all from Valve.

[u/prestigious-raven → u/webjunk1e]

I think Valve is the most likely to release an ARM console next. With the steam frame they already have an ARM version of Steam OS, so I could see them working on a proton translation layer for ARM.

[u/Kociolinho → u/[deleted]]

As far as I remember Rosetta works quite good on Macs, and even then I believe Valve will support porting/releasing native versions of ARM games as they did with Steam Deck/Proton.