New Steam hardware leaks ahead of official announcement – the return of an old fave, refreshed
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Two Steam hardware devices are rumoured to be launching in the coming days – maybe even today.
One is a VR headset, it’s claimed, while the other is said to be a new version of the infamous Steam Controller.
Valve is reportedly set to unveil at least two new Steam gaming devices in the next day or two. One of them had leaked online already.
Rumours have it that Valve is about to unleash a new VR headset – the Steam Frame. It is said to be a standalone model – ie. won’t need a PC – and rival the Meta Quest 3. However, it’ll give you access to Steam (of course) and the vast amount of VR games that are available through the platform.
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But a more definitive leak comes from Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) who has a decent track record of such things. He claims that the headset will be accompanied by a new Steam Controller.
(Image credit: @SandyItsBradley)
Posting on his X feed, with an image he admittedly created using AI “trained on a real image of the new controller”, he reveals that the new gamepad will have two thumbsticks rather than the one on Valve’s infamous original.
The touchpanels, for mouse-like control, will this time be at the bottom rather than top.
According to his post, the controller will also be able to detect how far your hands are from the grips, although there won’t be individual finger tracking. This could be important for VR games.
The new Steam Controller will look like this when it launchesIm told that it can also detect how far your hands are from the handles using a simple capsense featureSimilar to the index controllers, but not full finger tracking in the grips pic.twitter.com/loIqpJb0YZNovember 9, 2025
In terms of the official launch time/day, we’ve heard it could be as soon as today – Wednesday, 12 November 2025. So we’ll be keeping our ears to the ground in case there are further rumblings.
If so, we’ll bring you more as soon as we have it. And there are even rumours that Valve could follow soon with a Half-Life 3 announcement, so we’ll try to keep on top of that too.
It could be an exciting 24 to 48 hours for Valve and Steam hardware fans, that’s for sure.
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