New Delhi, Nov. 13 -- Valve is bringing Steam back to the living room with a new home console called the Steam Machine. Instead of a handheld like the Steam Deck, this box sits under your TV and is built for 4K gaming. Valve is pitching it as a compact system that can stand next to a PS5 or Xbox Series X in capability, but in a smaller body that is easier to place in a living room setup.

Inside, the Steam Machine uses an AMD APU based on Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 3 graphics. The chip combines a 6-core processor with a semi custom GPU offering 28 compute units. With AMD's FSR upscaling enabled, Valve says the device can run games at 4K and 60 frames per second and delivers more than six times the performance of the Steam Deck. On paper, it...