games

you know how steam

released this little

handheld

taht runs their own custom os on a linux thingy

It is just a more powerful steamdeck without the screen

this little niche handheld

that started an entire market

called the steamdeck

as max is pointing out

I've got a little handheld of my own

Posting this one on Reddit

yeah his name is josh

and he sits in the cupholder in my car

hes a good little handheld.

Cupholder is for upsidedown mcdonalds ice cream

not for Josh

tbh i still dont think itll pop off

but i do see the use for like

a living room

if i was a well off adult

i would probably get one for my living room

since itd sync with steam saves

I think its a better value proposition than an xbox considering all xbox games are on pc now anyways

yes

the idea of a pc that syncs with your real pc

that you can place in a large living area with a big tv

that supports emulators and anything else you wanted to throw on it

and it just works

is pretty comfy

but like, only if youre rich

If I did not have my pc directly hooked up to my tv already via HDMI, I can understand the value

i think they should of gone harder on the family market tbh

4 controller pack

push a party game

try to push devs to support local 4 splitscreen again

A valve nintendo like party game would be interesting, I would be curious what the hell they made

steam could 100% break into the nintendo market imo

there are MANY MANY adults with kids, that are valve/steamheaded niggas

if you gave them the opportunity

2lazy to scroll up and read, but I know someone who had the SteamLink and it sucked even with running ethernet to it. I wonder how theyll make this one any different

yes

unironically bringing back the era of couch coop

would be a play

but i think valve would need to push developers to actually make their games support this stuff

because if the playerbase was there, i can imagine a shit ton of shitter indie devs trying to make their own

but every couch coop game fails on steam really hard

because there's nothing there tot ake advantage of it

No one wants to hurdle around a pc

It's horrible trying to couch coop PC games now

idk i think valve has honestly the strongest chance of breaching that market

they just need the right push but i dont think theyre doing that

I think valve is in the unique position of most people not hating them and having an infinite money glitch to push into any market

Valve supports all controllers too so it's an easy way to say all you controllers work with this

We can't couch coop anymore or we'll get COVID....

1 more week to flatten the curve rusp

so we can do it next week

the alternative is

We should honor the victims of covid by locking down for a week

valve creates a ds download play style

multiplayer

for lan

so people can be on their like

chromebooks or whatever

(not really)

Okay hear me out

so your steam library gets replaced by these digital cards right

and you can only have one in the system at a time

and you can lend them to someone, but then you cannot use it

and you have to manually load and unload every steam game

i wish the steam machine had a disk drive

Yeah but not to abuse it, you can only do it within a family

valve hates physical media

wtf

I mean, it goes against their entire company value proposition so I understand why lmao

yes

to be also fair though

these are just linux machines

you can install anything on

including pirated games

Last physical pc game I bought required me to make a steam account to play it (Civ 5) so I just never bought another physical PC game again