• hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I feel like in a few years Valve is gonna have another go at Steamboxes, and both Sony and Microsoft are going to end up being caught off guard.

    • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I’ve been saying for a while that Microsoft’s best bet from here is to turn the Xbox into a Windows box, update Windows to work decently on handhelds, and launch an Xbox portable. Kill the console/PC distinction and leave Sony flat-footed to compete with Nintendo.

      The only challenge to this approach is Valve beating them to it from the other direction.

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        10 months ago

        MA is headed there. They are moving all of their office suite apps off x86 and into webview, which means they are platform agnostic.

        I see them taking another stab at pushing ARM windows again. Maybe the Xbox mobile will be their flagship.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          I see them taking another stab at pushing ARM windows again. Maybe the Xbox mobile will be their flagship.

          Maybe Steam will launch a phone in the near future?🤞

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            10 months ago

            I like Steam because they are more upfront about what you get when you “buy” a game, but I don’t want Steam to become a mega corpo that has tentacles in every technological industries just like Google or Microsoft.

            They still are a company first and foremost, and Gaben isn’t eternal. Their attitude can change as fast as getting a new CEO when Gaben steps down.

            Nothing good comes out of a mega corpo getting bigger, and we have many examples of that.

    • randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 months ago

      What’s stopping you from building your own Bazzite Box right now? (ChimeraOS is great too. ) Honestly, the things that make me most excited are

      1. the combined rumors of Valve developing for Arm and

      2. the Asahi Linux presentation from Alyssa Rosenzweig that shows you can run modern games from steam on Linux on arm mac NOW. https://rosenzweig.io/blog/aaa-gaming-on-m1.html

      Valve’s first party custom hardware is coming.