Quoting: TightRopeHow many people will go back to Crucial when the bubble finally bursts and they need real customers? This is probably a bad long term business decision.

Long term? Not sure I understand that phrase. Does it mean, like, beyond next quarter?!

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As a consumer, not only did I not notice getting chopped, I hadn't even realized I was made of liver!

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Quoting: SzkodnixPlease make that browser plugin for Epic Games Store as well!

Oh, wait. Tim Sweeney says that it's not necessary :grin:

Well, in the case of the Epic store it probably isn't. To need that, you'd have to be buying a game . . .

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Quoting: elmapulanyone knows the name for the steamdeck GPU and steam deck oled gpu on the hardware survey?

Deck LCD: AMD Custom GPU 0405

Deck OLED: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)

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Interesting. Looking at that graph, it appears that Mac has bottomed out, which I don't care about that much but am probably more pleased than not, and oddly Steam Deck has flatlined while Desktop Linux accounts for all the Linux rise lately.

That's perhaps less odd than it seems . . . as we've often noted, Steam itself is growing. So, for Deck to stay flat, that still requires an increase in actual numbers of Deck users . . . so if Deck sales have slowed down and are now just keeping pace (proportionally) with Steam overall growth, you'd see the percentage of Deck users being flat. I expect when they decide there's finally the hardware and release a Deck 2, there'll be another rise.

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Well, I expect prices will go down after the AI crash. Which really doesn't seem like it's gonna be all that long now. I mean, the guy from "The Big Short" who cleaned up on the 2008 financial crisis is shorting AI stocks, and the Dark Lord . . . uh, Peter Thiel . . . has sold his. Seems like the music is starting to grind to a halt.

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People can say close to 100% of companies are/will be using AI for coding, but what they mean is "some kind of clump in my immediate view are all doing it". I don't think anyone actually knows how prevalent or otherwise it really is.

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Well I wasn't sure what I thought about this, but if Sweeney thinks the labels are unnecessary and pointless, they're probably a good idea.

I'm not sure I see the point of his objection, anyway. Like, PEGI-13 games are ubiquitous, guess there's no point age-rating games.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's going to be really worth while to rate a game's friendliness to SteamOS per se separately from how it plays with the Deck as hardware.

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Valve have already done that:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valve-announce-steamos-compatibility-ratings-an-extension-of-steam-deck-verified-for-more-devices/

They've also said that "Steam Machine Verified" and "Steam Frame Verified" ratings will show on those respective devices.

Ah, thanks!

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Quoting: andilooks really nice, better than Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess ?

Which reminds me: Everything I could want, Liam says. Well, what if I want Aztec Gods in my helicopter shooter, huh?

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This kind of thing makes me wonder how the rating stuff is going to work once the Steam Machine is out. Because right now, the Deck rating system doesn't differentiate between games that don't work well with the form factor or power level of the Deck on one hand, and games that don't work well with SteamOS on the other. But with the Steam Machine, there's going to be a difference--there could be games that work fine with SteamOS, and on the Steam Machine, but not so much on the Deck; like this could be one of them. At the rate things are going, there could in the end be multiple kinds of device running games on SteamOS. It's going to be really worth while to rate a game's friendliness to SteamOS per se separately from how it plays with the Deck as hardware.

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