One of the Steam Deck’s primary advantages over more powerful handheld gaming PCs is its operating system, which is designed to mimic a game console interface within a Linux PC environment. Valve has long planned to bring the OS to other devices, but a recent Steam Deck software update includes the first mention of a rival handheld.
Actually a steam tv stick would go crazy never thought of that. Extreme low latency PC streaming to tv.
Isn’t that what the Steam Link tried to do?
The Steam Link tried and succeeded at this. My guess is only technical people understood its use-case at the time. For hardware to do well on a large scale it needs to be standalone. You turn it on and immediately see the benefit of it. Can’t be dependent on the customer’s other hardware.
well it will help if you can get many of the same internet streaming apps you have with firetv stick and such. so people might just buy it to steam netflix and be part of the market outside of the ones using the game streaming.
yeah and steam had a desktop I think but Im hoping it just sorta being cheaply licensed will work out better for that kind of thing.
Loved that thing, I could play party games from downstairs with our 5ghz network. Made college weekends so much fun!
I believe so yes (tbh forgot it was a thing) but for example my smart TV does not have a steam link app available for some reason (LGC3) and I would definitely stream to it given the chance. Not sure why the steam app is not available.
use moonlight. it’s free and works well