Their funding might have come from that, but in terms of design, the Steam Deck brings together the best parts of the Steam Controller and the Steam Machine, which individually weren’t smashing successes, so I see it as iterative.
Great, if you like hardware. I enjoyed valve the game development company. I miss that, and I think that the success of steam and the loss of key personnel is the reason for it. That’s all I’ve been saying this whole time
Totally fair stance to have. I was just responding to your point that the Steam Deck is “a unicorn that only works because they have a functional monopoly on PC game sales”.
Their funding might have come from that, but in terms of design, the Steam Deck brings together the best parts of the Steam Controller and the Steam Machine, which individually weren’t smashing successes, so I see it as iterative.
Great, if you like hardware. I enjoyed valve the game development company. I miss that, and I think that the success of steam and the loss of key personnel is the reason for it. That’s all I’ve been saying this whole time
Totally fair stance to have. I was just responding to your point that the Steam Deck is “a unicorn that only works because they have a functional monopoly on PC game sales”.