Valve hasn’t mentioned the price or release date for its long-awaited Steam Frame standalone headset, although we seem to be getting suspiciously close.
As spotted by hardware analyst Brady Lynch, Valve just published a new store landing page for Steam Frame content, which is rounding up all of the ‘best’ games and demos that are certified to work with the company’s soon-to-launch VR headset.
So far, there are only four titles on the ‘Great on Frame’ site:
- Into Black (VR game) – The Binary Mill
- Portal 2 (flatscreen game) – Valve
- Aperture Hand Lab (VR hand interaction demo) – Valve
- The Lab (large format VR demo) – Valve
Of course, there is set to be a much (much) larger subset of games capable of working on Steam Frame, as the standalone headset can not only download, store locally, and play nearly any flatscreen game à la Steam Deck, but many PC VR games that have been optimized to run on its Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 (Gen 3) mobile chipset. That comes in addition to being able to wirelessly stream games directly from a VR-ready PC at higher quality.
While we’ve had the opportunity to go hands-on with Steam Frame following its unveiling last November, two of the biggest missing pieces of info are undoubtedly price and release date.
If it’s going to be anything like Steam Machine though, which launched at a not-so-friendly price starting at $1,050 last month, we’re expecting somewhat of an initial sticker shock too. To Valve’s credit, the company has been transparent about the fact that the RAM and storage crisis has jacked up prices across the board, although that doesn’t make what could be a $1,000+ MSRP any easier to swallow.
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