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Boruta.dev
@boruta.dev

Imagine @steampowered.com releases a new version of Steamdeck, that is slightly more powerful, but comes without a display or controller, and works with external display and bluetooth controllers. Would you buy it? Sounded silly in 2018, doesn’t sound half-bad in 2024.

David Walters
@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

I'd like one! Not sure it'd happen though as, since it would be an open system, they'll just get undercut and out-specced by competitors. They can compete in the handheld space because of the hardware limitations of that kind of device. As a settop box they'd only have a brand name to rely on.

Boruta.dev
@boruta.dev

Here's the kicker - Valve would benefit from the 2/3 price clones as long as they would use Steam as their content delivery service (which they would, out of lack of a viable alternative in the PC market).

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Boruta.dev
@boruta.dev

The reason Xbox and PlayStation has such a bad rep in this generation is the mistakes that have been made by both companies while preparing their game production pipelines. There's simply to few high-profile releases on Xbox and Playstation and they are too far apart. Steam won't have such problem.