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Valve has been quick to walk back a small part of their recently published Steam Year in Review, an article the tech giant publishes detailing all of the new features and tools it launched throughout the year.
This article mentioned the hardware announced for the coming year: the Steam Machine, a living room PC designed for TV use; the Steam Frame VR headset; and the Steam Controller. It also mentioned the challenges the company faced as global memory shortages continue to affect manufacturers worldwide.
“We hope to ship in 2026, but as we shared recently, memory and storage shortages have created challenges for us,” the blog read.
After readers ran took the comment as a suggestion that the hardware mightn’t release in 2026 at all due to the challenges, Valve quickly reworded the article, removing the “we hope to ship” wording entirely.
“We shared recently that there have been challenges with memory and storage shortages, but we will be shipping all three products this year. More updates will be shared as we finalise our plans,” the updated post reads.
Despite seemingly slipping out of its expected launch window of early 2026, it’s reassuring that Valve still aims to produce and ship new hardware this year.
