sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoValve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steamfrvr.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down17
arrow-up1217arrow-down1external-linkValve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steamfrvr.comsanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square76linkfedilink
minus-squareEp1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·1 month agoI think it’s the right call. If they locked it down so it would only run Steam, it would be no different from every other console.
minus-squarekbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoJailbreakable? Yeah they could lock it down behind some obscure jailbreak. The ones that really want to use it as a PC could but most would just use it as a game console. That’s just not Valves style.
I think it’s the right call. If they locked it down so it would only run Steam, it would be no different from every other console.
Jailbreakable?
Yeah they could lock it down behind some obscure jailbreak. The ones that really want to use it as a PC could but most would just use it as a game console.
That’s just not Valves style.