Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Well sure, it's not the hardware sales alone that's doing it for Valve.
Stream Deck sales are just icing on their cake. They're turning back flips when any PC handheld is sold (not just their own) because they know there's a 95% chance that the purchaser of said handheld is going to stock most of, or all of, their games directly or indirectly through Steam.
Valve's nailing down of, and further establishment and entrenching of the handheld PC market, and their work to help it to thrive regardless of manufacturer... it is just a genius move on their part to get more people funneled into their store.
The big three in the console world are also attempting this - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft... but unlike them, Valve is doing it the right way, providing tons of value to consumers rather than restricting it. It's definitely paid off for them.