Did the windows version also get a similar price bump?

The Windows version is showing as the same price as the SteamOS version, but with a claimed discount of $130 to get it there on the Z2 Go version (ie, they claim that it should be $730 normally). For the Z1 Extreme version, the Windows one is $900 and the SteamOS one is $830.

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I really dislike the PC = Windows mistake.

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I really liked the demo. I'll be picking this up to play with the little one.

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I do wish this had a demo. I'm interested in the game, but a lot of the reviewers had an issue with the driving feel so I'm hesitant to actually get it. If there were a demo I could give it a go to see if I would have an issue with the feel of it, and then buy it if I didn't. Without a demo I'm either not going to buy it (where I am now), or buy it and refund it if I don't like it enough within two hours. Having a demo gives potential customers a no-risk encouragement to try your game without the hassle (customer side and dev side) of refunds.

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10 years ago the Steam Machines had definitively failed. Twelve years ago, though, we were riding high with 40% of Steam releases having a native build because of perceived future growth of the platform.

It's never been hard, as such, to make a native build. It's mostly the commitment to testing and fixing, and potentially working around quirks of middleware where the Linux build hasn't received enough testing and fixing.

The Deck does have a lot of hype, even with the non-Deck Linux market being twice as big as the Deck market. And the platform's been showing consistent growth in the way that Mac, say, hasn't. And a native build gives the dev control over how their game runs in a way that Proton doesn't. Maybe the Deck has driven them to look, and then they've realised that the market's bigger, and the work less, than they'd assumed? I couldn't say for sure.

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You can't use both at once, so, if you nudge the trackpad any joystick or button input will allow the controller to regain functionality.

They should really fix that. Properly handling mixed mouse and controller input should be the norm going forward.

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What is GFX10/9/8 in this context? Which "older GPUs" does this affect exactly?

GFX8: GCN3 (Volcanic Islands) & GCN4 (Arctic Islands/Polaris)
GFX9: GCN5 (Vega)
GFX10.1: RDNA (Navi 1)
GFX10.3: RDNA2 (Navi 2)
GFX11: RDNA3 (Navi 3)
GFX12: RDNA4 (Navi 4)

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So where is it?

https://i.ibb.co/27LVJShQ/Screenshot-20250403-024200-2.png [External Link]

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Ok, i see you managed to got to those numbers. HOW exactly?

You click on the dropdown menu to pick "Linux only" exactly as I said, and exactly as I showed you a picture of.

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But these totals, where exactly they can be seen? There is no link to those as far as i can tell.

https://i.ibb.co/39jWpVqG/Screenshot-20250402-220235-2.png [External Link]

https://i.ibb.co/Kj1DJTRS/Screenshot-20250402-220316-2.png [External Link]

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