New steam controller please!!
As for Steam machines: A bit of a harder sell.
One of the big value adds of the steam deck is people can't make their own deck in the same way they can't make their own laptop. So the deck, and devices like it, offer a different way to play PC games and that's valuable to many people.
One of the big reasons steam machines failed was there was just no value added. Just use a normal PC. Stick linux on it if you want. A steam machine is just a PC that runs Steam OS. Or any Linux distro with steam running on it really. Of course Linux was in much worse shape gaming wise too: Proton wasn't even a thing back then.
Still: If they made something like a mini PC with a beefed up steam deck SOC for 300-400 bucks...would that be of interest to many? Not sure to be honest. With the way PC hardware pricing has gone though, it may be nice as an entry level option for people. However you can kinda already get systems like that. So i'm not sure what a steam machine would add.
Still, I can't emphasise it enough valve, new steam controller please. That thing was class. I think they need to give Scuff a bloody nose over a patent first though. Fingers crossed they can get a judgment from a few years ago overturned.
Also standalone VR headset!
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