It is reported that Valve once planned to launch a VR console, but it was too expensive and died.

IT House News on September 17th, Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais revealed that the company had developed a dedicated VR console, but it was canceled because the cost was too high. According to IT House, this console may be the successor of Steam Machines, a piece of gaming hardware that failed to be released in 2013.

Griffais said they plan to launch a VR console alongside the Valve Index VR headset in 2019. However, at that time, technologies such as Proton on Linux systems were not mature enough to support a large number of PC games. Additionally, they don't have a good desktop/universal system solution that would allow users to buy this console at high-end PC prices

Griffais also said that their work on the hardware was only a PC case and a motherboard, which meant that the console did not yet have specific specifications and configurations, which meant that the project was terminated very early.

Griffais later worked on the Steam Deck, a successful product that combined all of Valve's previous hardware efforts. The Steam Deck is a portable handheld game console based on Linux that can run most Steam games.

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