It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine - Steam Deck HQ
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With all the layoffs and industry volatility, I think now is a great time to consider bringing back the Steam Machine, with a few changes.
  • espiritu_p@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    I don’t think that’s the job of Valve.
    They tried to push Linux gaming a decade ago by providing a Linux distribution optimized for gaming and invited hardware vendors to sell machines with that distri.

    At that time a gaming optimized distribution was hardly needed, so they were pioneers at the time.
    And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.

    But there has so many happened since then. Gaming Hardware is working from Day 1 with Linux. Proton - wich is supported by Valve - is supporting latest games on Linux, mostly from Day 1. At least if the developers don’t actively sabotage it.
    As a result we don’t have that one SteamOS distribution which would ultimately put us in dependece from Valve. We have several different gaming optimized distributions that you can use.

    It’s great that Valve does so much for Linux gaming, but I don’t want them to manage everything.

    • brisk@aussie.zone
      1·
      8 months ago

      And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.

      It’s not important, but there is no connection between the original Steam OS and there new one. The original was an Ubuntu derivative, and there new one is an Arch derivative.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      If I’m going to game stationary, something with more than 10W of horsepower would be nice.

      I agree that the steam machine was too early. People hadn’t been fully disillusioned by the planned obsolescence of their console libraries yet. Today, in a world of $600+ consoles that are impossible to find within 2 years of their release, hardly any worthwhile exclusives, and Nintendo trying to make you repurchase the old games at full price again, a steam console could potentially sweep the industry.

    • cron@feddit.de
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      8 months ago

      It seems sort of a waste of resources to use a steam deck as a stationary device. However, I don’t think there is a really large market for a console-like steam machine.

      • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        Right; a stationary Steam Machine (upgradable, etc.) would be a desktop PC running SteamOS, which should probably remain outside the purview of Valve’s hardware division.

        • Patch@feddit.uk
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          8 months ago

          A small set-top box (essentially a Steam Deck with the screen, controls and batteries removed, and with components that don’t have the space restrictions that come with a mobile device) would still be an interesting proposition. Particularly if they partnered with the main video streaming services to port their apps across, and implemented Chromecast/AirPlay support.

          I can see a market for it, as a “Chromecast and Apple TV competitor that also plays all your games”.

          • Belgdore@lemm.ee
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            8 months ago

            This is what nvidia did with the shield, and they don’t make a mobile version anymore. The set top box was just that successful.

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          on the other hand something as sleek, cheap and ready to go out of the box as consoles, with guaranteed support for a while AND the biggest library of games on release? that could bring a lot of console people over to “PC” if done correctly. or market it more as a streaming server, that would be cool too.

  • testman@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Ctrl+F Deckard - 0 results
    does author know about the Deckard thing that Valve is supposedly working on?
    from what I understand, it will be some kind of Steam Machine with focus on In-Home Streaming.