Valve is reportedly working on a device to connect to televisions: a future Steam console in the pipeline?
Today, the rumor of the console of the future does not concern Nintendo and its very next Switch 2, as we like to call it, but a better known player in the PC gaming market: Valve. Indeed, several users noticed that the Steam Deck update contained several occurrences of a mysterious Fremont project. By digging a little, the insiders also came across several references to the AMD Lilac processor. Add to this the appearance, still in this famous code, of HDMI-CEC drivers and it doesn't take much more for the most advanced technophiles to deduce that Valve could release not a successor to the Steam Deck, but rather this which would be similar to a living room console; a device to connect to the television (or monitor). Indeed, the processor thus unearthed would still be too energy-intensive to equip a portable device and the famous Fremont project would in fact be a Steam Box.
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This is not the first time that Valve has tried such a product. Already in the 2010s, Gabe Newell's firm had tested the waters and presented some concepts which, ultimately, had not achieved the expected success; the fault of insufficiently efficient hardware and, perhaps, of a vision that is a little too avant-garde, these Steam Machines not including any reader (optical or card) at the time. However, the triumph of the Steamdeck shows that the dematerialized games market is now ripe enough to accommodate a console completely devoid of a reader: PlayStation did not hesitate to release a PS5 Digital Edition just like Xbox whose Xbox Series does not read no cartridges or discs.
The future controller for Valve's future console? ©Valve
Even if other clues (such as the recent announcement of a Steam Controller) point in the direction of such an announcement, we will however wait for official confirmation from Valve on the release of this new peripheral to have more information on the price and the marketing date of what could become a serious competitor in the dematerialized video game sector.
