Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaGood, x86 has to go away.

I know not many of us have to go that low, but for those who have to, x86 is nice.

Thanks for your interesting write up. From what I heard I always thought x86 asm is a mess. Nice to hear other opinions.

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Quoting: hardpenguin

Steam Phone? You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Steam Tablet or Steam Car.

Or even a Steam Locomotive!

Steam Yacht!

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Quoting: tuubiFor the ones commenting on the lack of HDMI 2.1, AMD isn't allowed to implement the standard in their open source kernel driver.

That said, my 7800XT does 4K@120Hz just fine, connected via HDMI to my LG OLED TV. VRR (FreeSync Premium) works as well, and is active according to the TV. Don't know about HDR as this machine is still on X11.

If you don't use an adapter it's using YUV420. You would especially see this on fonts.

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Nice! I'm interested in all 3 of those. Steam Controller will be an instant buy. Will be interesting to see how successfull it will be.

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I wonder if Valve is considering an ARM CPU for the Steam Deck 2.

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Dragon Quest 3 also had Denuvo, 6 months later they removed it. I guess this will happen with this game as well.

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Music and art style to me it seems is heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger.

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I have perfect vision, but still want this as well.
I play games on my screen, tv and steam deck. For example Final Fantasy IV 3D is perfect on the deck, but the UI is way too big for screen or TV. Other games are too small for TV and too small for the deck.
With TV in general, people have very different sitting distances to it, so UI scaling makes sense from that perspective already.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe amount of time required to research addons and configure Kodi is too much of a entry barrier. I would rather save my time and throw money at something to save me my time. I would even buy Kodi Plus or something if it meant a system that went toe to toe with SmartTV functions without the nonsense in a FOSSy way. It's totally okay to sell FOSS @Kodi. (Eg: Redhat, Ubuntu, Linux Autos, etc..)

Since I found Plex and now Jellyfin, I have no use for Kodi anymore. My experience is the same as yours, a lot of configuration and plugins and the controls are bit hard.

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Valve proved they can create a console like experience on handhelds.
They can do it for sure now on stationary consoles too.

I guess it will be a custom machine probably with the rumored Strix Halo APU.

Then also, there's the rumor about the new Steam Controller. That fits perfectly into the picture.

I really look forward to it. I don't think they can compete with Sony or Nintendo in terms of numbers, but it doesn't need to have numbers as high as those to make it a success.

Edit:
What makes it a success compared to creating your own HTPC:
1. Standardized hardware, meaning, game creators can create custom profiles like they do for the steam deck.
2. You don't have to build it yourself
3. Probably competitive pricing
4. Perfect support for things like CEC and bluetooth wake up. Turning on the steam controller turns on the console and the TV.

It's possible to achieve those things with building a HTPC yourself, but it's way harder to get it to the comfort level of like a Playstation. Things like CEC usually don't even work on normal AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

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