Valve’s Steam Machine may not launch this year

Valve still can't reveal details about the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller launch dates, which were originally scheduled for early 2026. In a new post, the company now says "we hope to ship in 2026" due to the ongoing shortages of memory and storage chips, but that timeline sounds like quite a downgrade from the company's earlier promises.

As recently as last month, the company explicitly said it had not changed its plans to ship all three new hardware products "in the...