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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
I'd buy a valve gamecube for 20 bucks
I'd buy a normal gamecube with a valve sticker on it for 20 bucks
Max, they could make a laptop version
so when the top opens after doing that
boom
screen
16 GB RAM, 8 GB VRAM
Still small, but not thaaat small
Eh, I mean if youre playing the latest AAA game sure
This is the best set out of the Dota 2 event. Except I dont play MH, I dont play techies, and I dont want to grind X amount of games to craft it. I still might play because the hunting log concept is fun and just a better version of the WK Arcana quest. I know you all wanted to know this.
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ 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
Steamlink was abandoned too early, I had one and it was frustrating but was 100x easier than other gamecasting options
they moved to app-based, but then smartTVs and androidTV kept rugpulling them, and in the end they sorta needed it to not even attempt to work over 2.4GHz wifi, leading to them just dropping development of it.
The in-home streaming market is WAAAYYYY bigger than people think (look at Playstation Portal), being able to easily cast to a 2nd screen/device elsewhere in your house. Steam needs to simplify this, and them not releasing a Steam-branded TVstick is a little disappointing. If the SteamCube is super portable and boots fast (like the deck) it will work, you can technically do in-home streaming using just the deck currently but it's not ideal because pairing an external controller and non-natively scaling is kinda underbaked.
The orignal Steam controller is the only controller I've ever liked, though I think the design of the new one looks worse than the original (as well as the Deck's and Index's) I still don't really ever want to use a controller, but I'll probably pick one up to have one. The dedicated puck is smart (like what Logitech and Razer do for their peripherals), as long as it can easily pair to open standards as well it'll get some use. If it presents as a PnP USB mouse/trackpad to normal machines I'll actually pop off because that would come in handy so fucking often.
SteamCube overall, I'll have to see the final price, but I'm going to struggle to see it's value over the hypothetical in-home casting device I wish they'd revive
No thoughts on the VR headset, I'll wait to hear more about it. I accept inside-out tracking is unfortunately the future, but I'm more interested in the AppleVision AR market at this point anyway
oh and to what Max said earlier, I wish Valve would change how they do "remote-play together"
it's works, but it's a bad experience and it's really opaque what games can even really use it well
Even though it would reduce total compatibility, I'd much rather it require an actual steamworks plugin devs had to implement
because yeah, half the battle is just figuring out if a game has couch co-op to begin with, and then if that's not broken seeing if it's fully functional over the internet w/ remote-play together
Replying to Polar_ #polar_ This is the best set out of the Dota 2 event. Except I dont play MH, I dont play techies, and I dont want to grind X amount of games to craft it. I still might play because the hunting log concept is fun and just a better version of the WK Arcana quest. I know you all wanted to know this.
It is definitely very funny when I play Crystal Maiden and I have all 5 players hunting me
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Steamlink was abandoned too early, I had one and it was frustrating but was 100x easier than other gamecasting options they moved to app-based, but then smartTVs and androidTV kept rugpulling them, and in the end they sorta needed it to not even attempt to work over 2.4GHz wifi, leading to them just dropping development of it. The in-home streaming market is WAAAYYYY bigger than people think (look at Playstation Portal), being able to easily cast to a 2nd screen/device elsewhere in your house. Steam needs to simplify this, and them not releasing a Steam-branded TVstick is a little disappointing. If the SteamCube is super portable and boots fast (like the deck) it will work, you can technically do in-home streaming using just the deck currently but it's not ideal because pairing an external controller and non-natively scaling is kinda underbaked.
In home streaming between devices is definitly huge, idk about casting to a TV. I dont think a firestick adjacent device would be enough to run anything meaningful smoothly, but i could definitely be wrong. I think one of my TVs had a Steam app, but it was so dog shit I cant tell you what it actually did, maybe im just making that up. Also while I dont really like controllers, i think theyre just better in some games. My only wish is that if I'm going to spend 70 dollars or more on a controller it was actually made for the hands of a normal human and not like a tiny baby 12 year old.
low-latency (in-home) game streaming actually works pretty well and requires very little processing
issue is that smart home/TV stuff is notoriously bad for high-throughput over wifi, and devices which can take a direct ethernet connection often throttle it or don't tag packets correctly
so a dedicated device works really well, an app leaves you sorta at the mercy of the manufacterer (who usually only have to plan arround a buffered TLS stream that AT MOST will require 2mbps
where in-home quality streaming is more like 20mbps
AV1 also helps a lot, and it's finally getting to the point where most devices are compatible with decoding it
Polar, what do you think the SteamCube price will be
actually, I'll poll this
Predict the Price of the SteamCube (base model) SteamOS, AMD CPU/GPU, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, 8GB VRAM
- <$5000 votes · 0%
- $500-$7004 votes · 36%
- $700-$9006 votes · 55%
- $900-$11001 vote · 9%
- $1100-$13000 votes · 0%
- $1300-$15000 votes · 0%
- $1500+0 votes · 0%
11 votes Poll closed
I'm guesstimating $800-ish for the base model, and maybe $1k for the 2tb
they've said there are 4 SKUs
512 GB
512 GB w/ Steam controller
2TB
2TB w/ Steam controller
I don't think the high RAM prices are real, it feels like the covid toilet paper panic
Part of me wants to say it would be 700>, but i remember from the original Valve Index launch they were not selling the headset for too much of a net gain. I think they'd probably be willing to go low in an attempt to get more people on, especially those who might already have establish libraries on Playstation
I think they'll have some model that's $999, and (hope) that's the 2TB bundle with the controller
if it starts at $999 for the lower base one I'm going to be sad
If it starts at $999 it will flop until a price cut
900 CAD
thats my bet
I wonder when they'll ship globally
wasn't the Steam deck US-->Japan-->Europe--->Global
They should sell it at a cheaper price in Japan, but for no actual reason since its a US company
I think Canada may have gotten it when Japan did
I appreciate what the steam deck is conceptually, but I don't use my switch undocked, so why would I buy a handheld pc
As interested in the GabeCube as I am, the VR headset does pique my interest more
Vinny, what VR games would you even play
Idk off the top of my head, but VR has always interested me, and I know before I even buy any VR specific games I have a bunch of games that have VR stuff in addition to their normal versions
I don't see myself getting a Cube, but I really like what they're doing
I'd consider the cube, if only for the fact that even on the new computer I overload sometimes while playing and streaming at the same time, which fucks the video bad