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Valve gives kudos to “amazing” Steam Deck competitors (archive.is)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I'm pretty sure Valve would rather not have to build hardware at all, they just want to sell games. The Deck was Valve declaring "Fine, I'll do it myself" after they couldn't convince OEMs to roll the dice. Of course they'll give competition kudos, competition proves the technology and market conditions for handheld PCs is present and in demand.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they just want to sell games

It'd be nice if they went back to making games

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Counter strike 2 just came out though! (/s)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i dont think its that its just to spur more competition imo. Handheld gaming PCs have been a thing since like 2015, but it was almost exclusively chinese conoanies only producing it over a kickstarter and some grew big enough to have a amazon presence (GPDWin). the lack of competition led to high handheld price costs that are reletively speaking, terrible (over 1000$ for what is essentially a handheld netbook).

the steam decks price was to garner interest and grow a market, which it will likely want other conpanies to take the reigns to. Valves decisions has ALWAYS been about growing a new market (steam machines(linux console pcs), steam link(porting pc gaming to the TV), VR(self explainatory), Steam deck(on the go linux gaming))

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's googles android plan, offer a small amount of hardware, give people the software for free, sell them the services