lustyargonian

One that will be succeeded with a next gen update.

Bethesda, makers of Fallout 76, may be interested because to use that mod you've to own both Oblivion and Skyrim, making Skyblivion a great scheme to sell you two more games.

It ain't powerful enough for modern titles sadly. I'm trying to say that there's a space where Valve made steam machine with niceties of SteamOS and power of say PS5 can really thrive.

There's some nuance.

• One of the bigger issues about PC gaming these days is the shader compilation stutter. Valve is able to precompile and upload these for SteamDeck, so a fixed hardware "console" from them will solve this problem too.
• SteamDeck is pretty weak but games are still sort of optimised for it. Same would be true for such a console, making devs focus on a target platform directly.
• Assembling PC yourself can have its own issues. You may not get all the ROPs, or a new Windows update may break your games, or you may occasionally update drivers to make a game more playable without black screens, or wouldn't turn on with a controller when set up as a "console". I'm not saying it isn't doable, but there is an audience for consoles who would love whatever SteamDeck has done for handheld but in console form, and may not want to bother with setting everything up. Valve can disrupt that

Steam can't release a "console" soon enough.

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some cash for our console, it's called xCloud"

I guess we should expect a price hike sometime in June then

I would like to predict the future too but alas I'm quite bad at it

Yeah you're right. It is quite a lot, especially with this kind of an IP and expectations to deal with

I would say Forza Motorsport reboot had its issues, Flight Simulator 2024 had issues with cloud infra and Red Fall had various bugs and T poses.

They were playable so I agree with you on that, except FS24

Actually there are two studios within Playground Games, I'm sure there's cross pollination but the other studio is still making Forza supposedly.

"Late is just for a little while, suck is forever"

• Lord Gabe