Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.
https://uspto.report/TM/99370857
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.
They already have the tech for it nearly perfected. Most of the time I play a Steam game now, I’m playing through my phone, tablet, or AppleTV. It’s fantastic.
Only thing that sucks is the Steam link app locks you out of the store and friends functionality (I believe to comply with Apple restrictions). Locking friends straight up breaks multiplayer in a few games.
I’m glad that Steam Link works for you. Meanwhile I gave up on it and decided to just lug my 50LB desktop from room to room instead, because doing so is considerably less of a hassle than putting up with Steam Link and its constant lagging, disconnects, dropouts, FPS dips, and input lag. It’s so fucking bad that I can’t believe that people actually still use it as more than just a neat novelty for five minutes at a time.
I don’t think steam link is perfect as a frequent user, there’s lots of connectivity issues
Probably very dependent on your setup. I have high speed fiber, so the performance is great either at home or remote.
If you don’t have a great connection, or your upload speed is limited by the ISP, your experience won’t be great. But maybe that’s what Steam frame is going to address?
Why would your internet connection matter for something that runs on LAN?
It’s not LAN only. You can play remotely.
I’m on fiber as well but using wifi on the remote machine
Ahh damn. Yeah, that’ll do it. Since I use Steam link, I’ve just got the pc setup on the server rack, so it’s hardwired in.