Can’t wait to play Fable on my fridge!
Valve even ported it to aarch64 (ARM) for the Steam Frame.
In my dream of my dreams, maybe they’ll one day port it to Apple Silicon too… Proton on a M4 iPad or Macbook would be an amazing gaming device.
I don’t know if a new steam machine will be successful or not. On one hand, people will be abandoning Xbox and a steam machine might pick them up, especially with Xbox’s “everything’s an xbox” campaign. And the steamdeck/proton has made the idea of a steam machine much more accessible and flexible. On the other hand, I’ve seen a lot of people suggest that it’d be a good idea if there was some sort of standardized console-like PC hardware, but I don’t know anyone who would actually buy it if it were an option. I think if you’re an enthusiast about hardware and control you’d get a full PC, and if you want the easy experience you’re probably still going to get a playstation or nintendo. But after all the work they’ve done with proton it’s worth a shot, especially with hardware prices for PC building to be pretty out of whack over the last 8 or 9 years. I used to tell people how cheap it was to get into PC gaming 10 years ago, but not so much anymore. It’s still worth it, of course, but it’s not cheap.
Maybe but the first attempt wasn’t really a Valve product. It was an OS and vague standard for other companies to make lower end Linux boxes and, as noted, game support on Linux was a shadow of what it is today. I think Valve has a decent hardware track now with the Steam Deck for this tier of machine. It could be that it still fails but I don’t think it’ll fail for the same reasons the first iteration did.