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[Debunked] Valve Is Building a 'Steam Console' To Rival PS5 and Xbox, Rumour Claims (insider-gaming.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Debunk from dev Pierre-Loup Griffais ‪@plagman.bsky.social‬

"we've done pre-release Mesa Vulkan work on every AMD architecture since Vega thanks to them kindly providing hardware, so there's nothing meaningful to read into there."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Don't they already have this? What is the Steam Deck, if not a rival to the PS5 and the Xbox ala the Switch? Shouldn't the focus go into optimizing that space, as opposed to trying again at the home console market?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Didnt they already try this and it flopped? Is my memory playing tricks on me?

It would be a pretty dumb business move. It's going to take a lot to unseat Sony and Microsoft, and the people familiar with Steam likely already have pretty powerful PCs. Case in point, the steam deck. Novelty product, it's pretty cool, but it's nowhere even close to unseating Nintendo Switch, let alone PS or Xbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are not misremembering. It did give us one of the most hilariously awful controller designs (though I applaud them swinging for the fences), and it it was the precursor to the steam deck, so it wasn’t completely worthless.

If they can take the lessons learned from their recent successes with the steam deck, I could see them making something that sticks around for a bit. There’s a market for people that want the steam ecosystem but are intimidated by PC builds or the toxic sub culture that sometimes permeates PC gamers. Having a pre-built PC with proper backing that just works out of the box with minimal tinkering could be an attractive option for some.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The bast majority of steam users have lower end hardware. I could see this being a good companion box for a recent steam deck owner looking for a bit more graphical grunt for their TV set up.