while everyone is busy shoving their own dick up their ass for their five seconds of pleasure before their cock prices plummet, valve is actually releasing and improving features. you love to see it.

steam families are now way easier to set up and let you play games even if someone in your family is accessing one of yours. massive steam W. i don't think i've ever seen digital game sharing be this easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b248W74jcFc

@beardalaxy With all sorts of features like that, Valve really should rerelease their Steam Machines (or at least redo the Steam Controller).
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@berkberkman @beardalaxy I dunno, these seems pointless. What they should have instead is an easy install of their Steam Deck distro for computers instead. I don't know if they have that already. There you go, a Steam Machine

@berkberkman @beardalaxy and I mean, the Steam Deck supports wireless controllers and USB-C hubs to have audio and video out, you know

@coolboymew @berkberkman Digital Foundry was actually just talking about Valve making a Steam Machine sort of thing again but themselves. Not speculating, just musing. In the wake of the PS5 Pro announcement, if consoles are going to keep getting more expensive it starts turning more people over to PC gaming and if Valve can make a beefier Steam Deck that's just one of these mini PCs that can fully function as a console while also selling it for less or the same price as whatever is coming out, there's probably a market for that.

@beardalaxy @coolboymew Valve might not be necessary to make those kinds of "console" PCs if that one EmuDeck dev gets enough funding, even if this kind of gaming computer isn't gonna be a console killer at all.
https://igg.me/at/emudeck-machines/x#/
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@berkberkman @beardalaxy once again, that's just a fucking PC with Windows/Linux on it, and will probably be more expensive than it ought to be

@coolboymew @beardalaxy @berkberkman The point of the steam machine was to mock console peasants, showing that every single argument they make about why their shitty slavebox is better than a PC is just straight bullshit.
Unsurprisingly, it didn't really change anything, but it's still more than Razer ever did.

The controller needs work, it's still worlds better than any other controller has been but it's only the first step in making them actually good.
Also last I heard it was tied up in legal trouble over some other company that was developing a controller with back buttons, but by their own admission they hadn't released anything that could have been used to steal it at the time that Valve announced their design.