While the most recent rumour of a Steam Console was complete junk, it did get me thinking on what Valve would need to do to make a Steam Console / Steam Machine actually successful.
The Steam Deck is great. At launch, it was cheaper than other PC handhelds and had better performance. And while SteamOS was buggy, the UI was much better to navigate than Windows.
As for a console that game play PC games, there’s just more competition and and less unsolved problems to solve.
I mean that’s a virtue. All the other consoles used to have better performance as well. The only way it could compete with the latest tech is to release a new one with higher performance, which is not what you want. You want devs to have stable performance targets.
And while SteamOS was buggy
It hasn’t gotten worse…?
the UI was much better to navigate than Windows.
…still is. As would a Steam console.
As for a console that game play PC games, there’s just more competition and and less unsolved problems to solve.
I mean I’d say the Steam Deck has been super successful, I fail to see any reason a desktop machine couldn’t be successful for the same reasons…?
The Steam Deck is great. At launch, it was cheaper than other PC handhelds and had better performance. And while SteamOS was buggy, the UI was much better to navigate than Windows.
As for a console that game play PC games, there’s just more competition and and less unsolved problems to solve.
Still is.
I mean that’s a virtue. All the other consoles used to have better performance as well. The only way it could compete with the latest tech is to release a new one with higher performance, which is not what you want. You want devs to have stable performance targets.
It hasn’t gotten worse…?
…still is. As would a Steam console.
There’s zero competition, as far as I can tell…