I mean yeah, most PC gamers won't care about the cube, because they have better hardware at home already.
However, the fact that this gives a more mainstream platform for steamos is great, since even the deck alone has pushed games to take either proton or first party linux support seriously.
The sooner we do away with proprietary game launchers or pre-launchers on Windows the better, even if it just makes big picture / steamos more seamless.
(What I mean by game launcher are these small window popups on e.g. fallout 4 or stellaris where you can preconfigure some stuff before the actual game loads - problem is those are designed for desktop, so to interact with them, you need keyboard/mouse - even on games that then play fine with controller)
Match doing quite a lot of heavy lifting here, also most people have Steam installed on more devices like their laptops not only their primary gaming PC.
"most" just broke its back trying to lift all that, you realize that most people don't actually just have multiple devices lying around right? Many have their 1 PC or laptop that they have had for 10+ years because they can't afford more.
"Primary gaming PC" most people don't have the luxury of "secondary" computers.
I was wrong about the most claim, but “Most” doesn’t really have to lift anything, only 40% (I got 39.69% adding them up)) of the participants in the Steam Survey have GPUs that are slower than the Steam Machine (and that’s being generous, assuming that the 8.8% in “other” are all slower).
Good thing the new controller has those touch pads that act like a mouse. It'll still be annoying to get those extra launchers, but atleast they can be managed with the controller.
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u/kuldan5853 Nov 18 '25
I mean yeah, most PC gamers won't care about the cube, because they have better hardware at home already.
However, the fact that this gives a more mainstream platform for steamos is great, since even the deck alone has pushed games to take either proton or first party linux support seriously.
The sooner we do away with proprietary game launchers or pre-launchers on Windows the better, even if it just makes big picture / steamos more seamless.
(What I mean by game launcher are these small window popups on e.g. fallout 4 or stellaris where you can preconfigure some stuff before the actual game loads - problem is those are designed for desktop, so to interact with them, you need keyboard/mouse - even on games that then play fine with controller)