I’m really excited by this. I sold my nintendo switch a while ago and I miss handheld gaming while going on trips. and also the fact that alot of games will probably be ported to linux because of this. what do you all think?
I’m really excited by this. I sold my nintendo switch a while ago and I miss handheld gaming while going on trips. and also the fact that alot of games will probably be ported to linux because of this. what do you all think?
Think you’re being a bit generous to think more games will be ported to Linux over it. Unless the thing sells well it’s gonna be business as usual. Would be cool to see but I can’t imagine it’ll pick up steam (no pun intended) the same way the Switch has. The Switch is tailor made for that experience and PC gaming isn’t really. But I do hope it does well even with my pessimism.
Proton/Wine works so well these days that you can play basically any Windows single-player game on Linux. The problem is really only on those few multiplayer games that deploy super invasive anti-cheat root-kits.
Maybe this new Steam console will result in some native ports of such multi-player games, but the form factor makes this less likely as few people play such multi-player games on hand-held consoles.
People play PUBG, Fortnite, Dead By Daylight and others on mobile (Android) and I’d argue a Switch-like console would be better suited for such kind of games.
~~Personally, I think what makes the console experience is just make some games exclusive to the console. I don’t think that’s what they really want, according to myself; an ex-handheld/console gamer. these machines are powerful but not utilized to the fullest and they don’t allow it even if it can be done. what we really want is to be able to play with most people on other platforms, have more cheaper games, more freedom in customizing our machine and maybe play retro games with an emulator. these things are only possible on the pc. not on the handheld just because gaming console always has an closed ecosystem like that of an iphone. handheld gamers are kind of oppressed in this way. which is why if a company like valve made a handheld PC. this would not only change linux gaming. but it will affect the whole handheld gaming world.
There are many, many PC exclusives. They could do one single timed release for such a console and sell hundreds of thousands of units.
Well, SteamOS thing caused Steam to go on Linux so it benefited the platform a bit
I have no love for Valve, but I don’t think it can be argued that SteamOS and Steam in general helped jump start linux support for games. I think linux support was always going to increase but I don’t think it was a given that there would be so much widespread support at this point.