unlike steamdeck that have a reason to exist (portability) this thing might strugle without anti cheat , especially when an title like gta6 launches, even if it dont support pc in general, i cant see many people chosing it instead of an xbox/playstation, especially now that sony will support xbox and xbox will support playstation, one of the key advantages of steam and pc games was to have support for both vendor exclusives.

it need to be priced very low or have an much better hardware than the competition

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i never open gnome software , but when i do, i discover this thing, decided to install despite the fact that i never heard of it before, and a few hours later, find this article...
yeah, it seems its really a new thing , no wonder why i never heard of that before.

i hope its good.

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when we think steam is feature complete, they find another way to inovate, and in this case, this sound like an obvious feature to add, im surprised no one thought of that before.

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from the company who want us to pay to own nothing then want us to destroy our own games

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im curious to see how good this is for content production, (mmd, blender and tools to be a virtual youtuber in general)

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in theory this is super cool, but in pratice you cant look to the side that much as show in the video and still look at the screen, unless you have VR, but at that point, you already have a head tracker and will need an vr with internal camera pointing at your eyes to use the eye tracker.

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google is way more stupid than i thought

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Fond memories of playing Super Monkeyball

i aways wanted to play this since i saw an video of it on... i guess it was cybernet.
for some reason never played, maybe its not as fun as i think

"So dumb to market this as only for Steam Deck when there's many controllers like the DualSense and Switch ones that can connect to PC just fine and support gyro"
the issue is, gyros might have a different calibration from controller to controller and device to device, so the game might be super fun as designed in some and quite irritating and boring in others, maybe the dev plan to support other controllers, but want to make an quality assurance first?

*im not sure about gyro, but other stuff like thumbstick definitely need calibration anyone who tried to play an n64 or gamecube game using an playstation generic controller know what im talking about.

hell even nintendo official ports had issues with this, ocarina of time/master quest on gamecube for example.

but i can see the issue with exclusives, sure it suck, but sometimes an controller have an unique control (eg: playdate crank, wii motion, ds screen) and i rather live in a world where an game exist but its locked to an device (for a good reason) than one where the game dont exist.

by good reason i mean , only a single vendor created an device with an certain feature, others didnd had interests, but if they did no patent would hold then back.

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great to see the dev is here!

Geert Verhoeff, what game engine do you used? im asking because um curious about how good the support for linux is, depending on your ansewer we will know if it was a better call to rely on wine =p

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Doesn't change the fact it's pretty goofy imo. It's like making a Switch exclusive by developing a game for Android and relying on translation layers, sounds like you're only overcomplicating the process and adding another layer of failure.

linux dont have a good track record of mantaining backward compatibility and if we cant be sure we can play games made 6 months ago on a distro we cant be sure that an game written today will work 6 months in the future.

windows is a more stable target (mostly because microsoft dont evolve this shit) and while wine has to run on top of linux and may suffer from the backward compatibility issue, its a single point to fix, in order to make tons of games work, so we can be sure that someone will actually fix stuff if they break.

TL:DR targeting windows they can ensure the game will work on both windows and linux now and forever, while targeting linux it only can run on linux now and with no guarantee of it keeping working in the future.

that being said, they should totally make an option to run an native version instead, im not sure how mods gonna work.

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