Steam Frame price, pre-order and release date may be revealed tomorrow

UPDATED: While we wait for Steam Frame pre-orders to begin, Valve has announced Steam Engine pricing and pre-orders have begun.

• 👀 Valve is finally getting ready to unveil its next VR headset

• 🔜 Steam Frame announcement may come from tomorrow

• 🤔 Updates have added more graphics for the device to Steam’s backend – something to come soon

• Valve has also received large shipments for the headset, which we estimate will cost between $1,000 and $1,500.

With all the frenzy surrounding the Steam Controller and Steam Machine in recent weeks, it’s easy to forget that Valve is preparing to launch a new VR headset soon. And there are signs that this will happen very soon.

Recent leaks for Steam Engine point to that June 23 announcement (that is tomorrow), with Steam Engine Pre-Order Date Takes place a week later. Expect more information on Steam Frame during this announcement. Whether availability, price, and release date information for the Steam frame will change is debatable.

An X post from Steam hardware updates Valve is expected to announce “hardware pre-orders and pricing between June 22 and June 30,” while reviewers receive units of both the Steam Machine and Steam Frame. Likewise, although it is not clear that both devices start at the same time, the X account concludes that it is “possible”.

In a reply to their own post, the X account said that the Steam frame seems to start after the Steam engine, but noted that “the wait for the frame isn’t long.”

A few weeks ago, Valve announced that both devices would be available “Shipping This Summer”And they said that again in March Start in summer. If the latest shipping information is to be believed, Valve is receiving shipments of 13 tons of imported vapor frame on June 10 alone. edge.

Well-known VR tipster Sadley’s Bradley recently Published in X Valve has updated the correct Steam Frame Welcome Tour strings and graphics to the Steam client backend.

Previously, it added information for the steam engine Latest SteamOS 3.8 update and upload a Steam Controller Unboxing Video A few days ago Steam controller announced.

When can we specifically see Steam Frame announced, and then for pre-order, Steam Hardware Updates also noted that Valve had three shipments of Steam Frame and four Steam Engine shipments arriving in its warehouse on June 17, and expects an announcement “before the 30th.”

If so, we’re likely to see more updates to the Steam client backend before the official announcement, as well as software updates leading to Steam Frame.

If June 30 is the Steam Frame announcement day, pre-orders will be available a week later. These could be hot assets, so Valve is likely to bring in a reservation system to deter scalpers, Comes with steam controller.

Pricing is a bit difficult as we have little information on how much it will cost. An interview with Valve when the device was announced Upload VR Valve noted that it aims to offer a vapor frame for less than the $1,000 full-kit it charges for Index.

By 2023, Meta was estimated to have broken even on every Meta Quest 3 with its $499 price tag. It is estimated to cost $430 to produceAnd in all cases pushing back the announcement of Steam Engine and Steam Act due to memory costs, the cost of the headset will be higher than we thought.

Maybe Valve thought they could make a Steam frame under $1,000 back in November of last year, when the memory crunch wasn’t as bad as it is now, so we’d expect the price for the full kit to be somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500. It’s a wide range, but with the way components are priced, it can easily be at either end of the spectrum.

Of course, in the way of official information, we still have a little more time to confirm Steam Frame’s price, release date, and pre-order date, but that’s our best guess right now.

Next: Steam Engine Cost: How much the valve’s new hardware is expected to cost

Reese Pitre is a journalist with bylines for Trusted Reviews, Digital Foundry, PC Gamer, DeGrader, and more. He has his own blog, UNTITLED, and graduated from the University of Leeds in 2023 with a degree in International History and Politics.