finally multihead!

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First they start off with trying to distract from what is actually being asked,

that reminds me of an epic Red Hat Commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE00uo3o_MU [External Link]

speaking of it, the new generation dont even know what FLOS fighted for, if we had won our battle, video game preservation would not even be a question of IF it would be a certainty.
i think we lost from the moment that we demanded just be able to play the games, we should have fighted to have 150% of it (eg: source code access) then setle down when the companies gave us just 110% (play + mods), that is how you do business ask for more than you want then settle on a midle ground, but we arent talking about business here, we are talking about changing the law so... yeah, it might be better to compromisse.
than to risk not have the law passing.

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wow they are working directly with wine developers!
quite nice to see, that is the direction that all companies should do, but they dont. (that or working with valve)

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With the June 26th update they've added in support for DirectX 12 and Vulkan, which should help keep it running smoothly on modern systems. They're still currently recommending DirectX 9 for now.

this should also help save battery on handhelds ;P

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Horrible news, Bazzite is based on fedora, they will have to find another umbrela distro, or maintain a lot of extra stuff.

Other than unmaintained legacy software, they should not exist anymore. There is simply no good excuse for not having ported your application to 64 bits, if you're still working on it in 2025.

i think modern compilers target 64 bits by default, so you have to put some extra effort in order to support people with old machines, wich is a good thing actually...

i mean, there is no reason why an pixel art indie game shouldnt work on a potato pc that some poor people have in some country who barely have eletricity and internet , let alone modern computers.

i think we are entering another flash vs kill flash, x11 vs wayland discussion...

i recomend this presentation for anyone thinking legacy dont matter, but i dont think its your case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65crLKNQR0E [External Link]

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the main issue is that their service was not avaliable in many countries, you just couldnt purchase their games there.

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i think xbox killed the demmand for this, but one thing they might try is take advantage of trackpads, Steamdeck have trackpads but no games made to take advantage of then, instead they are used to improve the experience on existing games.
if they had tons of money and made some great games focusing trackpads, they could have something that only then and steam deck users can fully enjoy, giving people an reason to try their device, it will just need to be better in terms of cost or power than one device instead of a bunch.

but its very unlikely they can pull this off.

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the timming couldnt be worse

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i think you guys are under estimating microsoft, they made a few trillions of dollars with windows, windows server (nowadays azure) and office, nowadays xbox can compete on how much money it does with windows.

how many dollars are they willing to lose to kill any chance of an competition to rise?

i wont be surprised if they put an ridiculous low price like 100 USD, until steamdeck fail, and if they lock the bootloader so you cant install linux.
they might as well give a lot of free games or gamepass to create an perception of value.
the average gamer wont care about any steamOS advantage, only the ones who owned an steamdeck or a few tech enthusiasts who watch youtubers talking about it or people who already own an steamOS device will know about it, existing users may keep using it but it wont grow any futher.

and lets not forget the elephant in the room, we lost support for GTA5 online and GTA6 will launch soon, on consoles first but if they count xbox as a console, then this device might have it! not to mention fortinite and others.

another thing to consider is that this thing has an 80whats battery, twice as big as the the LCD steamdeck, steamOS can be better but wont do miracles unless its runing on the same device.

valve also said that they wont be making exclusives so we cant count on it.

now microsoft will have an xbox branded device that can play sony games, pc games, and probably will figure out an way to make the old xbox games work on it as well, even if they only support a single hardware to make things easier for thenselves.
and even if they cant do that, they will use vaporware tatic to FUD steamdeck, just like they did with project milo, promisse the impossible and never deliver, the goal was not to make something cool and sell it to make a profit, the goal was to make the competition look obsolete to kill the desire to have it.
kinect was a flop? accessories that arent bundled with an console are a flop in general, but i wouldnt call 27 million units sold a flop, its a subset of the xbox360 user base but a quite large one, the only issue is that they had a bad PR at xbox one gen and the casual market was not loyal as they expected, because if it came bundled with the device it would have 100% of the marketshare of the console, definitely wouldnt be a flop.

on the flipside, this might harm nintendo sales, people may say their loyal fans will purchase anything they sell and they dont have to worry about with their exclusives , that is not true, otherwise gamecube and wiiU wouldnt have sold so poorly.

not to mention this might harm playstation sales as well, the next gen graphics arent that impressive compared to the previous gen, so people might be willing to play current gen games with graphics from the previous gen for portability sake.

if microsoft can harm nintendo and sony marketshare to the point they strugle to get thirdy party support they might try valve strategy, that would be our last chance and could be our best, an gamechanger that completely change the industry forever...
but im skeptical, i think microsoft, sony and nintendo will keep their power and steamOS/Steamdeck will lose share.

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the ad says freedom of windows, sigh, "freedom" out of all worlds they could chose, i wonder why they picked that.
i wonder how their partners will react

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