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Valve made a bunch of headlines overnight, and I'm kind of going to go and reverse order of

importance to tell you about it. First, if you'll recall,

Steam upended the console gaming world by releasing the Steam deck.

Now, it seems, Valve wants to take over the console gaming world with the new Steam machine, a cube-shaped gaming PC with Steam OS built right in, a semi-custom AMD-ZEN4 CPU and AMDRDNA 3 GPU,

and 16 gigabytes of RAM, expected in early 2026, quoting Tom's hardware.

This is a system meant for living room play, armed with a new semi-custom AMD-Zen4 CPU and

AMDRDNA 3 GPU, and it runs SteamOS just like the Steam Deck.

In many ways, it's effectively a Steam-based console.

Valve claims that this system is six times more powerful than the Steam Deck, though,

so it should be a better couch experience

than using the Steam Deck dock and playing games at low resolution. The company suggests that

the Steam machine can play games in 4K and 60 frames per second, with the caveat that you'll

have to rely on AMD's FSR scaling. The PC measures 6.39 by 6.14 by 5.98 inches, almost a cube without the computer's feet.

It's 5.83 inches tall. Most of the computer is on the bottom of the box with the majority of the

space inside taken up by a substantial heat sink and fan. The front of the system features a customizable light bar that you can personalize to indicate

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