One of the Steam Deck’s primary advantages over more powerful handheld gaming PCs is its operating system, which is designed to mimic a game console interface within a Linux PC environment. Valve has long planned to bring the OS to other devices, but a recent Steam Deck software update includes the first mention of a rival handheld.
They abandoned it because they could just build it into TVs.
They didn’t abandon it, they opened it up to anything running at least Andriod 8.0 or newer. So basically every Andriod device made since 2015 can run Steam Link, maybe not at a quality seen as appropriate but it’ll run.
I’m talking about the hardware.
They stopped making the hardware because they didn’t need a dedicated device any more.
Unfortunately smart TV’s are just a step up from potatoes. Having separate hardware is gereally better than a smart TV app
I wish we could stop with smart TVs. I want a dumb TV with a nice screen & my own hardware without worrying about the data collection
Steam link hardware was junk too.
Just get something with android and you’ll have a better experience for all the rest of your TV stuff too.