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[Debunked] Valve Is Building a 'Steam Console' To Rival PS5 and Xbox, Rumour Claims (insider-gaming.com)
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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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[–] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Steam Machines flopped for a whole bunch of reasons. Many of those have been fixed over the intervening years. Consoles are now all basically PCs, and the market leader runs a variant of BSD (iirc). That makes native Linux gaming a much easier thing to pull off. Then, there's Proton which is apparently basically some kind of black magic where Windows games can run better under Linux than under Windows. There's also much better peripheral device support than there used to be. Valve has also created a basically fixed platform with the Steamdeck (and its AMD-basef competition), meaning developers have a defined set of features they can target for a good experience.

I'm here for this. If they can overcome the Nvidia issues, I'll just stick my gaming rig in my loungeroom and build something smaller and cooler for my main workstation..

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

I'm here for it too, I mean my PS5 sucks and I'm sick of spending thousands of dollars on my PC. I just have some doubts about the viability, that's all.