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Why a new Steam Machine when the first ones flopped? Because this time, Valve say, it'll actually have games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 9 points 2 days ago (13 children)

"Developers were kind of stuck between the equation of 'Do I want to do a bunch of work to port my game? But there's not an audience for it that justifies this work yet.' So it was a little bit of a bootstrapping problem.

While Proton is an amazing technology I think it will also be a crutch and an excuse to not make native ports. Proton brought gaming to Linux, but it will also hold games on Linux back for decades.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

As SteamOS is Linux, it's a matter of the Steam Machine actually competing with PS and Xbox. If it sells enough, it'd be a logical step to start porting directly to it instead of relying on Proton. But then again, logic isn't always developers or publishers forte.

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