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Re: Steam Machine

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Post by thrownawaysz »

The elephant in the room: "will this game run on my Steam Machine?"

This is really the part a lot of people don't understand and not a qestion you even have to ask when you buy/download a game for a console.

Some of the biggest games right now like BF6, COD, or Fortnite, League of Legends, chinese gacha games won't run on this. That excludes a massive part of the market, many of whom would be the exact audience for a simpler, more console-like PC experience. There's also no guarantee that future AAA games will be compatible with this day one (8GB VRAM is very limiting already).

Yeah yeah indies but if people want to play X then offering them Z is not an option.

This will be DOA anything over $500

Re: Steam Machine

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Post by pjmlp »

Maybe this will have better luck this time, and who knows, studios might finally care to do at Steam OS native builds.

Re: Steam Machine

#383

Post by pigcat »

wnevets wrote: post #231

Can I use it as a jellyfin server?

Can I use it as a jellyfin client? Does that... make sense?

I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.

I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.

Re: Steam Machine

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Post by Otek »

thrownawaysz wrote: post #381

The elephant in the room: "will this game run on my Steam Machine?" This is really the part a lot of people don't understand and not a qestion you even have to ask when you buy/download a game for a console. Some of the biggest games right now like BF6, COD, or Fortnite, League of Legends, chinese gacha games won't run on this. That excludes a massive part of the market, many of whom would be the exact audience for a…

This is true also for steam deck but it’s a success anyway. COD, Fortnite, LoL players can stay on windows. I’m happy to play newest indie game on my Linux machine

Re: Steam Machine

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Post by thrownawaysz »

Otek wrote: post #384
thrownawaysz wrote: post #381

The elephant in the room: "will this game run on my Steam Machine?" This is really the part a lot of people don't understand and not a qestion you even have to ask when you buy/download a game for a console. Some of the biggest games right now like BF6, COD, or Fortnite, League of Legends, chinese gacha games won't run on this. That excludes a massive part of the market, many of whom would be the exact audience for a…

This is true also for steam deck but it’s a success anyway. COD, Fortnite, LoL players can stay on windows. I’m happy to play newest indie game on my Linux machine

>but it’s a success anyway

That's also debatable. Switch 2 sold 10m units in 6 months compared to the Steam Deck's 4 million in 3 years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Steam Deck is niche even among the gaming crowd.

>COD, Fortnite, LoL players can stay on windows. I’m happy to play newest indie game on my Linux machine

This is the mindset that makes the Steam Machine DOA if not priced correctly. No one will pay $800 just to play Hollow Knight in 4k

Re: Steam Machine

#389

Post by gavinsyancey »

whatevaa wrote: post #213
delusional wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm more confused that it's running SteamOS which is supposedly Arch based, but arch doesn't officially support ARM. You have to use the ArchLinuxARM distro for that, which is less maintained. They got to be doing something off label for that.

Arch doesn't support ARM at all. Arm is somebody else hobby project.

Arch has been working with Valve on various build system improvements for some time [0], which as I understand it are targeted at making it more feasible for them to eventually support more architectures [1]. This doesn't release for several months; I wonder if there'll be an official Arch Linux ARM by then?

[0]: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41696041

Re: Steam Machine

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Post by jbaber »

Many comments here and on similar posts bring up only keeping Windows for games, and only then for games that require heavy anti-cheat.

Is there a reason there couldn't be non-regulation copies of games that don't do anti-cheat but are otherwise fine. Like metal baseball bats, oversized golfballs, etc. Official, but not allowed in competitions?

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