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Are the Steam Machines delayed until 2015? All signs say so

Valve Software has evidently delayed the release of its Steam Machines platform for non-Windows gaming in the living room. But, in classic Valve fashion, it didn’t announce the delay to the press.

Rather, Valve staff member Eric Hope posted a message in a forum in the Steam games-store app. In the message, he talked about improvements to the platform and then added, “Realistically, we’re now looking at a release window of 2015, not 2014.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.