That's crazy. I look for racing or fighting games to play while listening to something else in the background. The thought of playing a Last of Us or a Silent Hill f while blasting Critical Role is just insanity lmao

Valve and Microsoft are partners who make tons of money off of each other. It's not going to be some 'war'

In any case, I don't think the new Steam Machine 'kills' anything on the console side.

I think it may end up being mostly incremental volume and, if anything, impacts the still small NUC mini-PC market.

The very important thing to remember when talking Valve and its ceiling compared to, say, Microsoft, is that you can not walk into a Walmart and buy a Steam Deck. You have to be enough of an enthusiast to know what it is and where to find it. That's the #1 thing holding Valve back.

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