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Hope this work great, gaming industry really needs that
Yeah, I'll never be able to afford any of that stuff, no point me even looking at it sadly.
It's for middle class people who have piles of cash to burn :-(
why is this thing not called Steam Engine?
I agree. FWIW, unofficially, fans are already calling it the "GabeCube" which is no less punny.
Apparently it's likely smaller than the GameCube was which is pretty incredible.
I'm assuming that d brand are already working on a GameCube inspired skin for this.
They are and have shown it
Uh-oh...my wallet is in trouble.
hello
I've been saying for years that VR can get off my lawn until I can buy Linux native hardware. I guess I'm interested in VR, now.
"I may never financially recover from this."
is well said.
I need to buy all of these.
Yup, that's me too, love VR, but refused to get a headset before because I would need a Windows machine. I bought a Quest 1, still use it sometimes, but I knew it was never going to be a long term for me, Meta is not a company I trust enough, and they did exactly what I expected them to do.
It will be interesting to see if Meta have any real response to this. They obviously never expected to have any competition so they got a scummy as possible with it. Now that they actually have competition they're sort of stuck, their only real response is to become more consumer-friendly, which is basically impossible because of their corporate culture.
When I look at this announcement, the hardware is very exciting, for sure. But it is Valve's dedication to Linux that really has me smiling. I don't see three hardware devices to buy. I see two big proclamations for which the hardware is the message:
SteamOS on desktop! It seemed inevitable but it's still great to see.
STEAM VR USING LINUX AS ITS TARGET PLATFORM?!?!?
I will grant that it's very possible I buy all three pieces of the hardware, even though I like building my own PCs. I will also grant that Valve's support for linux probably would not be what it is without the enshittification of Microsoft's ecosystem. But in this world I'm gonna go ahead and accept the imperfect good news.
I wonder if the steam machine supports hdmi cec.
It does! I believe I read it in one of the rock paper shotgun articles.
All I got to say is that the new Steam controller better link to devices as a controller and not a mouse. The current steam controller shows up as a mouse when I connect it to mobile devices via Bluetooth, so I can't use it with games that have controller integration build in to the game, since they think I am connecting a Bluetooth mouse. The only reason I don't use my current steam controller as my main controller is because of the mouse issue.
I think that was the right approach for the first controller. It is one of the worst controllers for traditional controller games, but it's the best by a long shot for mouse driven games. So when you plug it somewhere that doesn't have the correct drivers it's more likely that you want to use it as a mouse than as a controller. There's an open source driver for Linux (or at least there used to be), but I don't think it ever got ported to Android since I guess it would require a rooted phone.
That was a conscious decision they made at the time so that you could browse the web and such with no driver downloads. The full functionality of it is kind of locked behind Steam itself (without community made software), which is its worst quality, for sure.
