Can you think about Valve moving into the console market with a SteamOS-powered gadget? Well, that is what the brand new “Valve Fremont” could possibly be, and it will compete in opposition to PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
In a swirl of rumors over the weekend, the Valve Fremont turned up and it could possibly be a brand new console that plugs into your TV, discovered by Redditor “Coolbho3k” who found a change within the Steam Deck Kernel by a Valve staffer, who was testing one thing known as “Fremont”.
Valve’s purported Fremont gadget appeared to have an AMD “Lilac” chip, however Brad Lynch from EOZ (which makes VR straps) posted on X that Quanta Computer is manufacturing the Valve Fremont gadget. Brad thinks that the Lilac was the unique PCB that Valve utilized in its first prototype of Fremont, however now has a very completely different, totally completed board.
Brad defined: “All references to Fremont guarantee checks for a full-size HDMI Type-A port you’d see on TV-focused consoles and different desktop computer systems that do not have a devoted GPU with its personal HDMI ports“.
In one other publish on X, Brad continued: “Valve Fremont can’t be a dock. The data that @FoxletFox discovered for us particularly notes that the full-size HDMI port is hardwired to the hosts’s card0 (GPU) instantly, not linked via USB-C. And once more, the GPU on this case could be constructed into the AMD APU, after all. So very possible not a handheld that may be Docked to a TV. But a completely devoted gadget with HDMI-Out as a major focus“.
I discover this fascinating, as we all know Valve is cooking up a next-generation Half-Life 3 (extra about that within the hyperlinks above) which might be a huge, game-changing launch in 2025. Can you think about, Valve releasing a console-style product — Fremont — onto the market to compete with Xbox and PlayStation, in the identical 12 months that Rockstar is launching Grand Theft Auto 6?
Are we dwelling within the timeline that Valve not solely releases its personal console, however Half-Life 3 and we get GTA 6 in the identical 12 months? 2025 goes to be wonderful… after all, Valve would not must launch a Fremont console, it may simply be enjoying with prototyping one thing for enjoyable. However, we all know HL3 is coming… so a brand new console now is sensible for his or her future plans.
