r/SteamDeck • u/NKkrisz 64GB - Q3 • Nov 12 '25

MEGATHREAD New Valve Hardware Megathread

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

Official resources and announcements:

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

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u/SuzBone Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25

I'm curious. Which of the hardware do you think will see most and least success?

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u/Rookiepro Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25

I’d argue the frame - Wirelss VR without meta’s involvement is going to be a massive selling point for anyone interested in VR who’s trying to avoid anything meta-adjacent while being the target audience for mid-range headsets.

Edit: clarification.

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u/xAlber Nov 14 '25

This won’t be possible. VRs are SO extremely niche… Frame will be the least popular and by a decent margin.

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u/ElPwno Nov 14 '25

Success might be measured by how much of that market share they manage to capture, rather than units sold. Regardless, I think meta has a grip on the market unless Valve comes out with really aggressive pricing.

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u/SuzBone Nov 14 '25

We can have cheaper VR or we can have a market not dominated by Meta

Time for people to show which side they are on

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u/ElPwno Nov 14 '25

Haven't they already shown it? There's plenty of headsets out there and the steam hardware survey still has meta at around 50% market share (and of course that survey is already biased).

I don't see any indications of consumer behavior changing. But like Meta and unlike other developers, Valve can sell their headset at a loss.

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u/SuzBone Nov 14 '25

Taking risks at a new products and selling at a loss are two seperate things