MarkAssPandi (@MarkAssPandi)

@halva so this
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The only reason Steam Machines is not console killer (I didn't say it is btw) is because it's not a known brand like Xbox or PS, so game studios don't gaf about making games work on it
And despite that, that thing still has a lot of games working, and if they actually treated SteamOS (so just linux in general) like an actual platform and not gatekeep it, a lot more of those would work.
So while yeah I agree it's not gonna end consoles, but what I meant was that, it's never been easier to attempt this for something of a scale like Valve.

So yeah not yet, but at some point who knows?
(and about price, steam deck was relatively cheap for what it were (I think, maybe I just got lucky buying it third hand), Valve could def at some point attempt something in price range of consoles with similar specs, and Steam Machine price (afaik) is not yet know either (or maybe it is, but doesn't rly affect rest of my point))