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Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.
https://uspto.report/TM/99370857
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.
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Sounds like the official Steam Mech or Metal Gear is coming out.
Framework + valve collaborating to release half-life 3 as a platform exclusive, confirmed!
Half-Life 3 to be exclusive to Samsung Frame TVs, confirmed!
Could you imagine if they release HL3 as a Linux exclusive? That’d satisfy me to no end. I don’t like exclusivity, but it’d be so fun to watch the chaos.
Honestly that’s a genius marketing strategy
That’s what I’m hoping, too. A collaboration between Valve and Framework, with iFixit for good measure. I’m expecting that the processor and motherboard will be custom designed, but I’m also hoping that the hardware will be repairable and upgradable.
That would be beautiful.
Considering the Steam Deck is not a deck, and the Valve Index is not an index, I’m assuming this is not a frame.
Oh wait, Steam Controller.
Surely it’s a mechsuit?
Steam Machine was a 10/10 name for an unfortunately failed product :(
Mine did not, and still does not, produce any steam :(
Have you tried filling it with water?
Steam machines was a better name to be honest. I’m sad that effort withered and died.
GabeCube was good enough for me.
I’d say more effort went into the software which sets us up for where we are now where a great deal of PC games is already compatible making this a must buy for playing the massive libraries that everyone has been amassing since 2003. If it can boot Plasma Bigscreen or if Steam Big Picture gets more entertainment apps like Netflix, it will be a home entertainment juggernaut.
Seems like we’re getting one step close to a full fledge SteamOS. I’m guessing they want to sell pre-builts before releasing the OS?
My guess would be they don’t want to spend a lot of effort supporting arbitrary hardware before they’re ready. Honestly, I don’t get why everyone is so obsessed with it. There are excellent dedicated distro maintainers that provide the same feature set SteamOS will provide —or something more suitable to your taste even. If you have a Deck then great, keep running SteamOS. If not, there are potentially better options for you already.
Frames -> Glasses -> new VR headset?
PS: Whatever you call it, please Steam Controller 2, it’s been too long 🥲
High Index Lenses -> Valve Index.
You might be right.
I’m sure a new VR headset would still use the Index name. AR glasses maybe, but I doubt it.
I’m personally speculating something like xr glasses with game streaming ability and the ability to connect to some kind of controller.
I hope you are right.
Hmmm. I was thinking since sort of flat screen that masquerades as a picture frame. Maybe an AIO device for game streaming.
If this is like a SteamOS desktop I am down. My 2080 TI is still going just fine though.
Or a home theater PC, which I am down for
Valve is building psychic robots remote piloted by orphans.
I’m pretty sure this is for an AI robot that is meant to play our backlog games for us
Sounds kinda dumb, ngl. But if they come out with some decent hardware, I won’t mind.
My bet is a new cloud gaming platform.
Would they really? Feels like that market is pretty saturated already. Unless they do something unique with it. But then again it would be great for the steam deck.
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I have nothing to add I’m just loopy and thought it was funny
They already have the tech for it nearly perfected. Most of the time I play a Steam game now, I’m playing through my phone, tablet, or AppleTV. It’s fantastic.
Only thing that sucks is the Steam link app locks you out of the store and friends functionality (I believe to comply with Apple restrictions). Locking friends straight up breaks multiplayer in a few games.
I don’t think steam link is perfect as a frequent user, there’s lots of connectivity issues
Probably very dependent on your setup. I have high speed fiber, so the performance is great either at home or remote.
If you don’t have a great connection, or your upload speed is limited by the ISP, your experience won’t be great. But maybe that’s what Steam frame is going to address?
Why would your internet connection matter for something that runs on LAN?
It’s not LAN only. You can play remotely.
I’m on fiber as well but using wifi on the remote machine
Ahh damn. Yeah, that’ll do it. Since I use Steam link, I’ve just got the pc setup on the server rack, so it’s hardwired in.
I’m glad that Steam Link works for you. Meanwhile I gave up on it and decided to just lug my 50LB desktop from room to room instead, because doing so is considerably less of a hassle than putting up with Steam Link and its constant lagging, disconnects, dropouts, FPS dips, and input lag. It’s so fucking bad that I can’t believe that people actually still use it as more than just a neat novelty for five minutes at a time.
“Saturated”? Seriously? How so? I can’t think of a single cloud gaming platform that didn’t fail miserably. Nobody can seem to be able to make a competitive service. There’s a massive gap that needs to be filled.
Uh, GeForce Now? Xbox gamepass/cloud? Amazon Luna? Probably more. And if others fail I assume because there isn’t enough demand. (except for stadia, that’s just failed because Google gets a hard on for canceling projects). Now I haven’t bothered with cloud gaming since OnLive. So I don’t know how good any of these are. They probably can be improved on. But to say there are none? Nah.
I don’t really like any of the options available, but there’s certainly competition.
Deck -> frame -> veranda?
pls be deckard pls be deckard pls be deckard
Steam Fream™️
Stame frame ™️
They need to get better marketing people. “Gonna go play a game on my frame” just sounds silly.
Yeah, I’d rather play on my deck instead
I don’t understand why they didn’t stick with the piping metaphor when naming things. You know, Valve, Steam… The Steam Deck should have been called “Boiler”.
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