Valve Steam Frame Review: Costly and Inconsistent

What the coverage shows

Wired frames the Steam Frame as a review verdict, stressing that its promise for standalone and streaming VR “doesn’t quite connect,” while Tom’s Hardware focuses on a specific software change, saying Valve added CD-ROM drive support to the Steam Frame kernel in under ten minutes. The coverage diverges sharply: Wired is judging the device’s overall performance, and Tom’s Hardware is alone in highlighting optical drive support as the news hook.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.