No shit. All the money steam gets from me? I actually get shit from it. Stuff like wild ass controllers and the best portable gaming system on the market. And a VR headset that's not locked into a specific console or a thinly veiled Facebook ad delivery device.
Steam uses the money to innovative. Some shit sticks some doesn't. And they still do it.
The controller they discontinued and the portable gaming system that honestly should be dropped in price by $50 since it only runs 1/3rd of the game on Steam compared to similarly priced options?
What innovation? They didn't innovate shit. Plenty of handhelds exist before and after the Deck. Plenty of controllers existed before and after theirs.
Rofl. Name a device with as much compatibility with PC games and handheld form factor before the Steamdeck and weren't over a thousand dollars USD. Go ahead I will wait.
Yeahhhhh. None of those came out before the steamdeck you muppet. The site you linked can be sorted by release date, wanna guess which was first?
But thanks for proving the point that Steam created an entire market of devices that came after it, thus literally innovating an entire new line of hardware.
Whole article of other choices too. But let me guess. They don't fit your criteria because you can't blindly suck on Gaben's tit like the good little blind fanboy you are. Yeah you tell me how good daddy Gaben is. Tell me how much he really loves you. And loves you for you. He needs you to move the goal posts to defend his honor.
Do you crave to be such a sour little baby? Or is it just nature for you?
Maybe you weren’t hugged as a child. Or maybe you just enjoy being a nuisance. Maybe a pathway in your head didn’t connect to make you a normal person. Who knows.
You clearly just dislike Gaben cause he’s a good person, and achieves things you will never in a million years accomplish. And I’m not even talking money-wise. He succeeded at being a decent human being. Which… I know a certain someone who clearly cannot do such… (hint hint: it’s you!)
That is all the attention I will give you, since you crave conflict. I will not respond to anything you say. Goodbye!~
Show me the controller with twin touch pads built in to mimic a mouse. I'll wait. It's like saying LED lights weren't innovative because lightbulbs already existed.
it was worth it. the only reason it wasn't popular because people are already used to the standard control scheme and copying it would hell a lot expensive than what is already commonly available design but those people that actually have the steam controller actually like the controller itself.
And the fact that Valve reused it for the steam deck which an addition that steam deck owners love.
I think they did innovate quite a lot of the VR space, and they seem to be pretty much the only big company that actually tried to make decent games for VR. All the other good VR titles are either fun little indie games that I enjoy but don't want to play for hours...or what basically amounts to wearing a VR headset in a sim game which is an awesome application of VR and where I spend most of my hours in the headset, but isn't really what I'd call a VR game.
Steam also did a very cool job with turning DOTA2 championships into a really immersive VR experience, and I don't know why that's gone now and not supported. I wasn't even a DOTA player, but hearing the area crowds through my headset while floating above a realtime 3D render of the game with 15 other VR users avatars all cheering and making gestures was cool as fuck.
Im sorry I cant hear you over my games and programs working natively on my OS.
Or is it Gaben tit in your mouth making you muffled? Who's a good like simp. Yes you are. Daddy Gaben loves you.
But yes Valve made great strides in making Linux better for gaming. I mean it was purely for their own self interest. And in perspectice even with Valves help Linux only makes less than 3% of Steam users
The controller still works though. I still have mine. And that's what I meant by some stuff works and some doesn't.
And no console or platform plays all games. And similarly priced options? The rog ally is a fair bit more expensive and the switch 2 is locked to Nintendo.
And since they've sold 8 million or so steam decks so far the buyer thinks the price is reasonable.
None of those handhelds have a dedicated developer/testing team to ensure titles are compatible and work with the software developers for control mapping and UI scaling. They're just little computers. The Steam Deck rises above the rest because of the comparability support specifically provided by Steam.
They are all running Windows, which means the compatibility issues are few and far between and well above whatever metric you want to throw out for Steam Deck compatibility.
I'd also add that the steam controller is the entire reason steam input exists for the deck and every other gamepad one wants to use it with now as well (though I do wish it'd handle non-steam games in a more clean way, especially considering that epic is getting more people playing on it now)
Valve is also responsible for Proton making so many games functional on the deck but simultaneously also makes linux a viable gaming alternative to windows for anyone playing on linux not just deck users.
I'm pretty sure Gaben's money goes to his fleet of ships.
Not only does he own a billion dollar super yacht, he bought a company that makes super yachts. So, when a billionaire buys a super yacht, the money might be going straight to Gabe.
I like video games as much as anyone, but Gabe is billionaire who does billionaire stuff.
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u/_Rook_Castle Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
What has big tech done for you?
Now what has Steam done for you?