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Valve is about to win the console generation
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Whooaaaa, slow down.
It’s going to be awesome, but there’s no way Valve and spin up the production volume of a PlayStation or Xbox that fast. It will probably take a few more Steam Machines to get there.
Given that their system is open-source, other manufacturers will step in, as they did with Steam Deck-style handhelds, further expanding the Steam platform at the expense of XBox, PlayStation and Nintendo,
I mean, we already have Gaming PC OEMs and mini PCs. It’d be awesome if they start shipping SteamOS, but they can’t sell hardware at a near loss + make up for it with Steam sales + guarantee hardware support in software like Valve can.
And most don’t have the volume for “semi custom” AMD SKUs.
The only entity I could see doing this is Intel, selling an Arc Steam Machine. That would be awesome, actually.