Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 hours agoFor Valve it would ideally lead to a new Steam account being created. Which would make sense if someone got one as a gift or something, naturally they would set up a Steam Account if they didnt already have one.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Yeah.
Also the new offerings are very much something Johnny Joe who has only ever owned a PlayStation, Nintendo, or Sony console would potentially buy.
Of course Johnny Joe would put the entire thing up his ass and die from heavy metal poisoning because he’s an idiot, but his peers would actually use them.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I guess that would depend on the front end and game support. If it is any less user friendly than Xbox or Playstation, people wont want to use it Johnny Joe and Little Timmy don’t want to fiddle with a bunch of settings and constantly change stuff to get games working. The Steam Deck does okay but I still find sometimes it needs some… coercing… to get some games to work right.
If they dial it in right, everything should work properly out of the box without needing settings changes.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I’d imagine they’re just porting over the exact same hi that’s already on the steam deck.
It’s great.