Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform? I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.
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Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on
my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform? I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.
Are they coming out with a new Portal yet? :-)
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Has anybody seen the upcoming products from Valve? I only run Steam on
my PC on Windows. Does anybody have Steam Deck, how does it perform?
I think I would be buying the Steam Machine when it's released.
I don't have a Steam Deck, but I do use Steam. I use it mainly in Windows, but a couple years ago, I installed Steam in Linux, and I've since installed a couple Linux-native versions of games from Steam: X-Plane 11 (and 12, I believe) and Overload (a 2018 successor to Descent/Descent 2). I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of those games in Linux (though of course, those games aren't developed by Steam/Valve themselves).
Same on Mac. Steam/Valve did a lot of good job with wine backed launchers to launch windows only games on other major OSes. Not even speaking that more companies are actually releasing multiplatform these days.
Windows is not that critical for PC gaming anymore.
Valve has invested a huge amount of resources in order to not become dependant on Microsoft.
Think about it. Steam has a 70% market share when it comes to PC games, but most of their games used to run only on Windows. This means Steam had a HUGE business going, but it all depended on a third party (Microsoft) for their customers to run their licensed games.
If Microsoft were to play a Google/Apple style scheme and make it so only official app stores were supported by their Operating Systems, Steam would be in trouble. If Microsoft released their own games store and actively tried to hinder third party stores, Steam would be in trouble. The people at Valve is smart and they know this. The best way to survive long term is to ensure they don't depend on Microsoft playing ball forever, therefore they NEED their product to run on different Operating Systems just in case.
would be in trouble. If Microsoft released their own games store and
actively tried to hinder third party stores, Steam would be in trouble.
They may try... to buy Steam.. that would be better for them instead of competing. This is such fucked up app store platform if I think about it
They have been buying studios in spades for a while now in order to fuel their library and they are already experimenting by licensing the Xbox brand to third party hardware manufacturers. It is obvious they are extremely serious about their strategical change of pace.
They have been buying studios in spades for a while now in order to fuel their library and they are already experimenting by licensing the Xbox brand to third party hardware manufacturers. It is obvious they are extremely serious about their strategical change of pace.
Our they trying to take the same approach to Windows? Allow companies to build the hardware then use their software?
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