grow up, its not ever going to be a rival to a switch.Switch is doomed. Ehm... no.
grow up, its not ever going to be a rival to a switch.
DAT INPUT LATENCY thoughWith this rumor and the court documents that are showing Valve and Microsoft playing nice, this could just be a streaming handheld that incorporates Steam Link and XCloud. I would definitely be on board!
I know you want to shit on rumormongering for clicks, which is something I fully endorse. But this ain't it, chief.Fuck yes more grifting on twitter!
If it's not VR I don't believe it. That's where Steam is investing their money these days.
Congrats. Shit is mined all the time from Valve games/software. Especially in the case of Valve it means nothing. Even worse, aside from their foray into VR all their other hardware ventures have been half-assed nothingburgers. Those Steam Machines sure did set the industry on fire!I know you want to shit on rumormongering for clicks, which is something I fully endorse. But this ain't it, chief.
This is not a rumor, this is datamined info found in the Steam Client Beta.
Congrats. Shit is mined all the time from Valve games/software. Especially in the case of Valve it means nothing. Even worse, aside from their foray into VR all their other hardware ventures have been half-assed nothingburgers. Those Steam Machines sure did set the industry on fire!
Also no one in their right mind is going to get a VR headset from Valve any time soon, not when you can get a more than decent experience from Oculus these days.
In other words, stop putting any weight behind Valve 'leaks' or announcements and let them actually release something worthwhile again.
Aside from Alyx (something 90% of the rest of us peasants can't even play) they've not released anything of note over the past few years. This is *after* they boldly came out with their new website's redesign and slogan "We Make Games". Oh great, we got two of the most cynical cash grabs not too long after in the form of Artifact and DOTA Underlords; both of which died on their arse (deservedly so).
Congrats. Shit is mined all the time from Valve games/software. Especially in the case of Valve it means nothing. Even worse, aside from their foray into VR all their other hardware ventures have been half-assed nothingburgers. Those Steam Machines sure did set the industry on fire!
Also no one in their right mind is going to get a VR headset from Valve any time soon, not when you can get a more than decent experience from Oculus these days.
In other words, stop putting any weight behind Valve 'leaks' or announcements and let them actually release something worthwhile again.
Ars agrees and rightly avoids clickbait by just calling it what it, likely, is. A gaming PC. With x form factor...I don't see how there can ever be a Steam "console", people said the same stupid bullshit for the Steam machines, it always has to be PC if it's to have the Steam library to any worthwhile extent. If they partner with whoever to make a nice form factor and implement their controller ideas and everything and their own Linux distro etc., like a fancy GPD Win or whatever, sure, cool, that's still a PC. There will be the same old tinkering and spec and compatibility checking (rather than expecting AAA games that technically support the platform to work fine for the next x years as if it's a console with its own special version library) and all that is PC territory, no matter how fancy the form and the UI of it is. It's going to be just like any other brand's small/portable/tablet/whatever form factor PC. Like Surface, Yoga, Thinkbook or whatever, designed by Valve. And if one likes it and also understands everything that comes with it, good and bad compared to any other model, they don't even need to care whether it sells like a console or not either, it will still work for them regardless. I guess you'd care if it's not a success so there's no updated 202x model when you inevitably need to upgrade assuming the smaller form factors won't be easily or extensively upgradable like any laptop or smaller form AIO PC, but not for any other reason, as if it will not get many game ports like a failed console. Like some rushed to lol @ Steam machines as if the people who got one suddenly didn't have a functioning PC like any other prebuilt user because they didn't sell so hot (they weren't even released worldwide iirc). Calling anything like this a console is disingenuously misrepresenting its purpose to users and undersells what it is. I hope Valve won't do such pr bs.