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Valve may be working on a direct competitor to the Nvidia Shield (www.xda-developers.com)

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Valve may be developing a "Steam Box" powered by SteamOS

The new kernel designed for "AMD Lilac" hints at possible new hardware

The device seems more of a competitor for Nvidia Shield than an upcoming Steam Deck 2.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it isn't.

You can install emulators on the shield to play classic roms and you can stream games from your PC or the cloud to it. My laptop does both of those things. Plus I can install some modern games like Hades 2, block ads on every video and music streaming service, and be more in control of where my data goes.

I'm pretty sure the only thing the Shield does that my laptop won't is a.i. upscaling which is not an important feature for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Most people, when speaking about a gaming device, aren't talking about the ability to play things from 40 years ago that you could run on a smart toaster