sugarhigh 519 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 (edited) PC gaming is about to get crazy. The Deck is barely out, and it's already clear Valve has accomplished some sorcery with this thing. Now that AAA easycheat games like Elden Ring and Apex Legends are confirmed working, there is a clear path for SteamOS to stand head to head with Xbox and Playstation in the living room. The same Proton compatibility will also apply to Chromebooks, likely to get a major graphics boost from Intel's new mobile chips. When you buy the Steam version of a game, you're not only getting the best graphics, you're getting portability, cloud streaming, and console, in a permanent library, with features that are constantly improving. You gotta give them props. Valve spent 10+ years building a platform that can take PC gaming beyond Windows, and it's finally coming together. Edited April 3, 2022 by sugarhigh Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Remij 4,670 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 We'll see about that. They have a LONG way to go yet.... BUT... you can definitely see the play here. They really have done some black magic fuckery with Proton.. Steam Deck is the perfect vehicle to accelerate SteamOS development. Valve are also experts at crowdsourcing data.. their userbase is incredible at providing that data too. They community is all too eager to help Valve bring this thing to the next level. They're building SteamOS out, and they'll keep working away on compatibility and features over time.. Then if they could convince developers to switch over to Vulkan natively.. and make SteamOS native games... MS could be hurting. They can then retry the "Steam Box" concept and release their own set top box running SteamOS. This time around the story is different than it was before. They'll have an OS level platform which has thousands and thousands of games supported out of the box... and the best thing about it is anyone can build a Steam Box.. just as you would any other PC. IF Valve do this right... it could be monumental. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sugarhigh 519 Posted April 3, 2022 Author Share Posted April 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, Remij said: We'll see about that. They have a LONG way to go yet.... BUT... you can definitely see the play here. They really have done some black magic fuckery with Proton.. Steam Deck is the perfect vehicle to accelerate SteamOS development. Valve are also experts at crowdsourcing data.. their userbase is incredible at providing that data too. They community is all too eager to help Valve bring this thing to the next level. They're building SteamOS out, and they'll keep working away on compatibility and features over time.. Then if they could convince developers to switch over to Vulkan natively.. and make SteamOS native games... MS could be hurting. They can then retry the "Steam Box" concept and release their own set top box running SteamOS. This time around the story is different than it was before. They'll have an OS level platform which has thousands and thousands of games supported out of the box... and the best thing about it is anyone can build a Steam Box.. just as you would any other PC. IF Valve do this right... it could be monumental. Yeah, I think that's right, but I don't think it's a long way to go. They don't even need truly native linux support, though Vulkan adoption would make a huge difference for compatibility and performance. Since Proton is the special sauce making this whole thing possible, it's more important imo that developers do the bare minimum to test against it, rather than take on the maintenance burden of full Linux support. Sooner or later, they will release SteamOS as a general purpose installer, and yeah you can build your own box or likely buy a box designed for it. Ignoring the high-end AAA space, there are boxes like this which would be perfectly fine playing hundreds of indie games on Steam in a very slick package: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TLHBO 2,160 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 I read thar ChromeOS was really barebones so Google really had to work to bring Steam and full Proton capabilities over. Last I heard compatability wasn't as good as desktop linux but it IS in Alpha so hopefully they can get that worked out, and I really hope Google contributes back to Proton since it's open source. As bad as Google is they're still better than Microsoft and if we can leverage more hardware numbers we can free PC gaming from the clutches of Microsoft's proprietary bullshit like Winblows or Direct X. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,228 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 You paid a company $400 so that you could "motivate them to accelerate development" of the base OS that's supposed to take advantage of the handheld hardware. I can't even make that statement against Apple fanboys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lostfool 680 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 LMAO hermslobs are fucking stupid Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,608 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Battery dies before you even download a game 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Remij 4,670 Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 2 hours ago, JonbX said: Battery dies before you even download a game But nah, if you're not playing anything the battery life is like anything else lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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