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Quoting: denyasisI think this product will struggle. They've never solved the problem that stream machines failed on:

You can't play all your steam games on it and that will never be the case.

It's too underpowered to run lastest/future releases and the fact that we rely on something like ProtonDB means that new users are going have to dive into settings on an OS they don't understand and hopefully not mess it up.

I'm not trying to say news users are dumb or anything. Messing with wine/proton prefixes isn't exactly an easy part of our OS. As much as Valve tries to solve it, that burden is still there for a lot of games.

Steam Machines failed because

a) There weren't many games. That has changed massively. The games available already top every console out there. The selection is huge.

b) There was hardly any incentive to buy one, because people usually already have a PC. Why would you buy a prebuilt system, when you already have one? - Steam Decks are different, as you can't build them yourself and people don't already have mobile PCs.

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Quoting: MohandevirWill we be able to download SteamOS 3.0 somewhere?

Why wouldn't they make this public?

I dont't know, seriously. But since it seems specialized for the Steam Deck hardware... Will it support Nvidia drivers? Are we going to be left on our own to make it compatible with our hardware? SteamOS included quite everything any new PC of that time needed. What is it going to be like for the "other hardware" support?

Don't get me wrong... I'm just asking. I really hope it will be the same as previous SteamOS versions.

I mean, they are also directly working with nvidia to make DLSS compatible with Proton and all that stuff.

They also said that they hope that other vendors will join the market and produce their own handheld PCs and I'm sure that some of them would want to use nvidia instead of AMD.

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Quoting: MohandevirWill we be able to download SteamOS 3.0 somewhere?

Why wouldn't they make this public?

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Quoting: GuestProton generally works well, but they must have some big updates (other than that anticheat news) and faith to be marketing it as taking your entire library on the go. I know I can put up with some minor work or glitches when using it but the general public who just want handheld Steam? And the games that still flat out don't work? Will be interesting to see what happens.

Really hoping this works out for the best as it could be a nice win for compatibility.

They said they are working directly with Anti-Cheat devs to make everything work with Proton and that they have a lot of stuff that's not in the Public Proton yet.

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So many updates for Controllers... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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I just want them to do one model as a single target for developers and if it's not a flop, do a revision every 2-3 years.

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Very cool!

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Then again, it could end up just being a Steam Controller 2 and these optimized games are just setup for it ready.

Yes, please bring me a new Steam Controller. I have no interest in a handheld gaming thing.

Everyone has smartphones that can play games and the switch is everywhere. What kind of minuscule niche would this live in?

If I'm not interested in stupid smartphones and their buttonless controllers? And I don't like Nintendo and its ecosystem?

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Quoting: subMaybe it's a controller with a display that just works as a Steam Remote Play client?

That would be pretty damn pointless and wouldn't require any of the features that those strings suggest.

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