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[Debunked] Valve Is Building a 'Steam Console' To Rival PS5 and Xbox, Rumour Claims (insider-gaming.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago) by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Debunk from dev Pierre-Loup Griffais ‪@plagman.bsky.social‬

"we've done pre-release Mesa Vulkan work on every AMD architecture since Vega thanks to them kindly providing hardware, so there's nothing meaningful to read into there."

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Pre-built PCs come with Windows and are not suited for a console-like experience out of the box like a machine with a preinstalled OS for gaming (whether that be SteamOS, Orbis (PS4/5), Horizon (Nintendo Switch), or Xbox's OS).

Not everyone is comfortable with installing their own OS/deleting Windows either, regardless of how easy it is.

Something like a Steam Machine 2 can really appeal to console gamers who want to dip their toe into PC gaming while still maintaining a console-like experience.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm pretty sure you can get pre builts that are not Windows.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I get all of that. I'm just saying if you want to do it, you can, today. And it's not even terribly complicated.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

technically? yes

but don’t act like it’d be the same

aesthetics, build quality, assurance that it’d all work smoothly, the whole experience just wouldn’t be the same

which is to say nothing about the fact that SteamOS doesn’t really work on hardware that’s dissimilar to the steamdeck… if they released a console, one would assume it would have higher specs

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

aesthetics, build quality, assurance that it’d all work smoothly, the whole experience just wouldn’t be the same

You're right, it'd probably be way better...and it would be customized to your preferences and price point.

which is to say nothing about the fact that SteamOS doesn’t really work on hardware that’s dissimilar to the steamdeck…

You're right again, you could use Bazzite or Nobara or Chimera and have an even better experience. Ask me how I know.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Steam has big picture mode, and gives the console experience. It's not really that difficult to install steam on a PC.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Pre-built PCs come with Windows and are not suited for a console-like experience out of the box like a machine with a preinstalled OS for gaming

It isn't that hard to install Bazzite. Literally the hardest thing to get it working great is finding a prebuilt that uses an AMD graphics card for the driver support.

And I've had people that don't even use PC's recommend Bazzite to me when I mention Linux. While not everyone knows what it is, you'd be surprised how much word of mouth has spread