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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.

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.

Having an official Valve SteamBox would be cool, but I wonder how many people would see a clone for 2/3 price and just get that instead. They can't lock people in like Sony / Microsoft can.

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).

That's a very good point!