• Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam
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Previously on Steam, if you hovered over the Hardware category there was a Steam Machines link in the drop-down, which is now gone while the links to the Steam Controller, Steam Link and Vive remain. In fact, the entire Hardware page on Steam is now gone and anyone using the link (http://store.steampowered.com/hardware/) is redirected to a basic search page. Looking back on it and doing a bit of quick research, it seems the change came this month. Valve has removed the Steam Machine section from Steam | GamingO..
I assumed they went ages ago I'd be interested in an autopsy on this, from what I saw Valve basically lost interest after the initial launch, and I'm sure I remember something with SteamOS not being ready in time and the OEMs getting pissed
I still an figure out what Steam Machine was supposed to be.
Didn't, like, everyone said "who exactly is the target audience for this"?
I think it was Gabe's attempt at killing Window's "walled garden".
I swear to fuck if Valve was an individual. It has a severe case of ADHD. Doing a fuck ton of projects and never getting them done, come up with crazy ideas that later fall apart, and usually say they'll do shit and then forget about it a week/month later. Which is basically me... :v
Valve is a long list of going "Hey, isn't this a good idea?" to a community that never asked for those idea, irregardless of quality.
Too bad that mentality has caused them to develop a fragile ego. Since they're basically terrified of even attempting a Half life 3 game. They've explained before that they've been trying over and over again to make another Half life game. But since people have been sucking their dick since time immemorial. They're too terrified of disappointing the community, even though they got the Talent and Expertise to craft good games.
Along with the fact that this wasn't marketed at all, I think the steam machine's biggest problem was that steamos didn't have as many notable games as steam on windows. Plus ports for games that were extremely popular then, like The Witcher 3, had ports announced but they never came out.
It is much appreciated that any video game company take risks these days, but it shouldn't be the only thing.
It seems to me that they now want to make their own "console", like Nintendo. Gabe said recently that he is glad that Valve gained experience in making hardware and that he is jealous of Nintendo's approach to making both consoles and games. Which means... ...special handheld console designed specifically for playing Artifact! hooray
I hope they make a new controller just for the hell of it tbh between a DS4 and steam controller, I've been stuck using the steam controller even though the DS4 has a far better build quality
Steam Controller is truly fantastic but not having a second analog stick is killer sometimes. I’d be all over it if they made something like the xbone elite controller and we could swap out the right trackpad for a stick as needed, because the Steam Controller fits perfect in my hand and the squeeze buttons are the best thing ever.
Just plug your controller into your PC???
Some people like playing games on a big screen and people often can't fit a TV and computer into the same room.
If only there was a way to connect a game controller to your computer.
Not really???
The Steam Machine was a way of jumping into games without having to fiddle around with a keyboard first.
SteamOS should have been the priority, the idea of turning a computer into a console is a much more interesting idea than buying a specifically made PC thats designed to be a console. Good riddance I say, although the alienware machine is still up
Having a joystick would really ruin the entire point having a modular pad however would really excell
The PC console essentially Just like how you can take your xbox and ps4 with you on holidays, it was the same idea, the problem was the OS (game developers are happy to port their games from windows to mac but seem to stop there and not even look at linux) and the target audience (gamers normally have either a playstation or xbox so why the fuck would they get this when they have a gaming computer). Also SteamOS sucked
I just want the Valve designed Minu ITX case, is that so hard? https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/441/591b747f-286c-4f3e-b21a-c021c9d4ed38/image.jpeg
Steam Link on an AC router, works wonders.
The way I see it, Steam Machines were a hedge against Windows Store and the general Windows 8 system. A software storefront, built into the OS, backed by Microsoft, a company fully willing to pay fortunes for exclusives or outright buy developers, and potentially able to link with Xbox Live? That could have been a threat to Steam, if Microsoft had pushed it harder and been smarter about it. And at the same time, Microsoft was edging away from the desktop space. If Surface and Lumia had taken off like they very well could have, Microsoft might have abandoned, or at least deemphasized, the desktop. What's Valve's recourse if Microsoft pulls the plug on Direct3D? Or just declares desktop Windows "deprecated"? Sure, even at the time, neither of those things seemed all that likely. But they were possible, and a response needed to start before it, to have any hope of success. SteamOS and Steam Machines were a hedge bet, a way to keep Valve alive if the worst came to worst. Now that the danger has passed, there's no need to push SteamOS, which was the only reason for Steam Machines. I'll note that the OS seems to still be active, if low priority. They're keeping it around just in case it becomes useful again in the future.
I can't really remember but was it linked to their VR plans at all? That would make sense if they wanted everyone to have a PC in their living room hooked up to a Vive
The Micro STX form factor is perfect for what they want. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12343/asrock-at-ces-2018-micro-stx-deskmini-gtx-pc-gets-coffee-lake Replaceable cpu socket, MXM socket for mobile graphics cards, and a standard form factor that's shown to work. However supposedly MXM socket is being phased for for a gpu on the same board as the graphics card.
Ya, this is a case where valve's flat management really screwed up, imagine if they had put out Vive with a small steam machine dedicated to VR. The steam controller is amazing but nobody supports it anymore either and there's few games that it would really work with
Alienware did these better hilariously, they should of just packed them with a custom windows image with big picture mode enabled instead of using Linux.
I think something like the GPD WIN would be a great SteamMachine. Everyone can build a small PC, but a handheld PC is still unique. The problem is cost.
Gabe thought linux would be the future of gaming. While it did finally usher in some Linux ports of large games, Windows will still always be dominant for gaming. I'm pretty sure a majority of steam machines came with windows anyway.
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