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Steam Machines disappear from Steam's hardware tab, but their legacy lives on |
April 03, 2018
Steam Machines no longer grace Steam’s dedicated hardware tabe, as GamingOnLinux noticed. You probably didn’t. Steam Machines carried thrilling potential but wound up doomed from the start, a catastrophic flop with consumers. The best concepts from the failed endeavor continue onward, though. Valve envisioned Steam Machines and SteamOS—a proprietary Linux fork intertwined with Steam’s Big Picture mode—during the Windows 8 era, while Microsoft was trying to turn PCs into tablets and lock apps down in the Windows Store. Cue the heroic reveal. Tiny, powerful Steam Machines by a legion of PC hardware makers were supposed to counter the threat of Windows becoming a walled garden while simultaneously dragging PC gaming into the living room.To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3267655/computers/steam-machines-disappears-from-steams-hardware-tab-but-their-legacy-lives-on.html#tk.rss_all
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