AllThatsEpic: After the long awaited reveal of Valve’s highly anticipated Steam Machines Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten has said that he’s “not sweating” Valves attempt at edging their way into the living room and he thinks that in the end, “there’s space for both” in a competitive market. At CES 2014, Whitten confessed to being skeptical of Valves new initiative saying, “I’m not knocking it or whatever. I continue to think that PC gaming — the sort of uber configuration and I can change everything and I can mod — that’s an important thing and there’s a lot of people that wanna do that.”
You’re not having deja vu. Six years after launching a line of Linux game consoles that went down as one of the biggest tech flops of the past decade, Valve is trying once again. Only this time, its Steam Machine dreams and unusual touchpads have been rolled into a 7-inch handheld PC that looks and works like a Nintendo Switch.
Here are six reasons why this isn’t Steam Machines all over again — and, a few brand-new reasons to be skeptical.
Steam Deck comes from a company with a mixed reputation for hardware.
Valve may very well have a hit on its hands — but many fans thought the same thing back in 2014.
At least they're trying. They could just keep pulling an EGS. I think this is Valve's answer to cloud gaming, though. I don't think they want gamers streaming from the cloud, they want them on their storefront. So, if that's their reason, they'll likely support this more than they have past endeavors.
I feel they want to start the new era of portable PC gaming. They said they would offer the customized steam os for free to any companies that want to make their own portable machine.
Somebody had to get the ball rolling is what I took from that statement lol excited for the future with handhelds since I'm a primarily handheld gamer.
The hype around this thing is wild to me. It screams “new toy to use for a few months but then go play steam on my pc”
We will see. The market is unpredictable. You cannot rule out the power of a platform with good exclusive games and even when I don't support Nintendo anymore there is no denying the power of its exclusive games.
Valve, the company behind the Steam platform, spoke boldly about its SteamOS plans in the past. It was all about creating an operating system designed from the ground-up for gaming and adding this operating system to hardware known as Steam Machines.
It can, just like the Xbox can live in harmony with the PlayStation and Nintendo. Assuming you own all the systems. All of mine sure got along just fine lol.
Steam Machines will be DOA.
Steam machines could be end of Xbox?
steam machine will to my collection and be my 1st gaming pc
The problem with Steam machines, it lacks games and lacks features.
You can just buy a PC and get better frame rates with games for the same price.
I think Steams machines will sell, but PC's still have an advantage over it.