Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine

• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  the point is that you don’t have to fiddle with anything, you can trust the product sold by valve to be good, you have everything preinstalled and configured, and because thousands and thousands of people have the same device it’s easy for developers to target it.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And with the way Xbox has been going, a solid Steam Machine could theoretically replace it in the market. Sure, your old discs wouldn’t work, but it would have all the Microsoft exclusives anyway. Even Sony exclusives are making it to Steam now.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      have old xbox discs really not been cracked? would feel very odd if people hadn’t figured out how to run them from regular old CD readers and emulators…

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      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Original Xbox, probably. 360 emulation is still pretty rough. I doubt anyone has a functioning One emulator and definitely not a Series X emulator. Not much interest since almost all of it is on Windows anyway. The only reason I’ve been watching 360 emulation is for Fable 2.

        Also, it’s fairly unlikely that Valve would include an optical drive unless they want to license blu ray stuff from Sony.

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• 0x1C3B00DA@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  that looks like a console

  Not just looks, but provides the UX of a console. So you buy it, plug it up, log in, and immediately start playing. Even consoles don't provide that streamlined UX anymore, but ppl want all the benefits console used to provide with all the benefits PC gaming provides now. But the key part is the PC benefits don't get in the way of the ease of it. You don't have to install or administer a linux distro, you don't have to twiddle settings for every game (unless you want to), etc

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  • nul9o9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s the big thing. After my postive experience with the Steam Deck, I switched my gaming PC to Linux. The were settings I had to tinker with to get my games running as optimally as they would on the deck, that I assume are set by default on the SteamOS.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They released the new steam os?

  Previously it was only the Debian one available

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have no idea. I assumed they did, but I’m not actually sure.

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    • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t think they have yet, which is a bit of a sore point. Third party alternatives like Bazzite may do the job, though.

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