Also no Roblox, if you were still on the fence.

Like 80% of the games I already play are random indie stuff. I buy maybe 1-2 new big studio games a year, and even those aren't exactly AAA. Right now, feels like big studios aren't trying hard to produce actually interesting games, just more franchise slop.

Steam machine got a solid "Oooooooo! Can't afford one right now but I'm sure keeping an eye on this one!" out of me.

No League as well.

Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank

I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.

They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat

Technically there is Call of Duty, just the older ones, which do still have people playing, and you can get bots for them, etc.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ they're cutting themselves out of a potential market, while I still have ton of other games to play.

Regrettably this stops me from forcing my archaic belief system on my children.

I've never understood these memes. If you don't want to play whatever game, don't play it. How do you somehow convince yourself that you're superior to others due to your inability to run certain programs?

Quote from a HN thread

My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the "SteamOS" interface.

I really like it. It really does feel like a "game console"; usually when I've made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.

I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a "console" instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.

I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.

I have one of the higher-end beelinks. Super small, quiet, doesn't get hot and I can play modern AAA titles on it, driving my huge screen TV in my living room.

Can you quantify this? Which Beelink? Are you powering a 4K TV? When you talk about playing modern AAA games, which ones, and what settings do you run at?

Fortnite, Cyberpunk, Starfield, probably others I'm forgetting I believe the TV is 4K, yeah. It's the Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12core/24thread AI PC Turbo Freq 5.1GHz

The online multiplayer for the original version of Modern Warfare and other older games still works fine on Linux and even has community modded maps and modes.

Those Steam Machines are just normal PCs. There should be no reason why you couldn't dualboot windows to play those few games that do not work on Linux.

Its the game cube 2, finally I waited so long.

You can install Windows on it if you really want to.

Fortnite can’t be played on Linux?

You might not play them, but others might. Exclusivity is always fucking bad, you're not only normalising it, you're celebrating it.

But hopefully this is the push they need. I got no horse in this race. Not games I'm playing and I'm not buying gabecube.