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.
[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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I don't think they have a lot of interest in pursuing that market personally, I think the goal is to hit casual to average gamers. Kinda feel like they want to create an ecosystem and they're going to leave the high end/pro market for other manufacturers to figure out.
I definitely don’t think they’re aiming for the high-end or pro market, but I also don’t think the average casual gamer is going to choose an unknown quantity that’s likely much more expensive than a console they already know works. That kind of risk is usually taken only by people who are more enthusiastic or more in the know, which doesn’t describe casual gamers.
Personally, I like the idea of it as a way to play my Steam library on my living room TV, much more conveniently than streaming, using long cables and Bluetooth devices, or lugging a heavy computer tower. It might also appeal to console gamers who want to get a computer but don’t know the first thing about them. The Steam Machine is a complete package that works more or less like the consoles they’re familiar with.