I wonder how much sense that would actually make for them. All the major console makers subsidize their products through game sales and online subscriptions. Valve already does the former, but that’s because they’re a game marketplace and it’s how they make money to begin with. I’m not sure what a steam subscription service (that’s not a game pass) would look like, since Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo offer online play and cloud saves for the cost of a subscription, whereas Valve makes those available for free.
Maybe Valve should take another crack at the console market.
I mean, you can just plug a PC into your television. Flip on Steam’s Big Picture Mode. It’s pretty similar, just that you don’t have to buy your hardware from Valve.
I don’t think the point was ever to have to buy the hardware from valve, or that’s not how I saw it anyway. They wanted other manufacturers in on the steam machines, I think there were even units produced. The idea (aside from more steam sales) was to standardise PCs around specific performance levels so developers could target them without the faff of having to know how a 12900K stacks up against a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a 13700 with a 3080, 4070Ti or a 7800XTXxXTTX.
This game is certified steam medium tier, I have a steam high tier machine, I will get xyz performance.
Yeah it really is, I jump on protondb and read like 2-3 reviews to make sure the performance is adequate and there’s no major game breaking bugs and it’s fine.
Honestly, there are very few games I have seen that don’t work on Proton today. You might need to update to the latest experimental or use the GloriousEggroll build of Proton, but I don’t even bother checking ProtonDB any more.
I will say that one of the games I really would like to run on Linux, Command: Modern Operations (and its predecessor, Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations) does not run on Proton. But aside from that…
So long as it’s a standardisation process I think it’s fine. Most are using prebuilt anyway so having a few standard levels SIs certify to makes it more consoley and anyone who’s rolling their own can use it as a guide or not and it’s exactly the same as the status quo.
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Maybe Valve should take another crack at the console market.
I wonder how much sense that would actually make for them. All the major console makers subsidize their products through game sales and online subscriptions. Valve already does the former, but that’s because they’re a game marketplace and it’s how they make money to begin with. I’m not sure what a steam subscription service (that’s not a game pass) would look like, since Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo offer online play and cloud saves for the cost of a subscription, whereas Valve makes those available for free.
I don’t believe game pass is even profitable, its just to grow the platform, when its big enough they will turn up the price.
I mean, you can just plug a PC into your television. Flip on Steam’s Big Picture Mode. It’s pretty similar, just that you don’t have to buy your hardware from Valve.
I don’t think the point was ever to have to buy the hardware from valve, or that’s not how I saw it anyway. They wanted other manufacturers in on the steam machines, I think there were even units produced. The idea (aside from more steam sales) was to standardise PCs around specific performance levels so developers could target them without the faff of having to know how a 12900K stacks up against a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a 13700 with a 3080, 4070Ti or a 7800XTXxXTTX.
This game is certified steam medium tier, I have a steam high tier machine, I will get xyz performance.
That’s a lot of work for Valve for little to no benefit.
Gabe is already the wealthiest in the video game industry. He’s good.
With the Steam Deck and how that is, I would actually be excited for a desktop version of SteamOS. Such a great little device.
Isn’t this it? https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown
I think this is the old version designed for Steam Machines, not the current version that’s used for the Steam Deck.
Yeah it really is, I jump on protondb and read like 2-3 reviews to make sure the performance is adequate and there’s no major game breaking bugs and it’s fine.
Honestly, there are very few games I have seen that don’t work on Proton today. You might need to update to the latest experimental or use the GloriousEggroll build of Proton, but I don’t even bother checking ProtonDB any more.
I will say that one of the games I really would like to run on Linux, Command: Modern Operations (and its predecessor, Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations) does not run on Proton. But aside from that…
And lose the pc neutrality?
So long as it’s a standardisation process I think it’s fine. Most are using prebuilt anyway so having a few standard levels SIs certify to makes it more consoley and anyone who’s rolling their own can use it as a guide or not and it’s exactly the same as the status quo.