While we've known for a while that Valve plan to get SteamOS Linux on devices other than the Steam Deck, we don't know when that will happen, but we've got another hint here that things are moving along.
Well yeah, because this time they have a ton of games and their own hardware. They’ve proven the concept, and the fact that more expensive and devices w/ less user-friendly software are selling shows that there’s a market here.
So all a competitor would need to do is build the hardware, Valve does all the rest.
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Well yeah, because this time they have a ton of games and their own hardware. They’ve proven the concept, and the fact that more expensive and devices w/ less user-friendly software are selling shows that there’s a market here.
So all a competitor would need to do is build the hardware, Valve does all the rest.
If some day they eat a big part of windows market shares I would not be surprise