Valve Talks New Steam Machine and Why Now's the Right Time For the Console/PC Hybrid
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In an IGN interview, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais said that “[they] want [SteamOS] to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC”. Below is a transcript of the interview. I tried to clean it up to my best ability.

Just like Steam Deck paved the way for Steam OS on a variety of third-party handhelds, we expect that Steam Machine will pave the way for Steam OS on a bunch of different machines in either similar form factors, different perf envelopes, different segments of the market, and get to a good outcome there. We definitely want to encourage people to try it out on their own hardware. We’ll be working on expanding hardware support for the drivers and the base operating system. Just last week, we fixed something that was preventing us from booting on the very latest AMD CPU platforms. Last month, we added support for the Intel Lunar Lake platforms. We’re constantly adding support and improving performance. We want it to be at the point where at some point you can install it on any PC, but there’s still a ton of work to do there.

If the embedded video doesn’t take you to the correct part of the video, the correct timestamp is 5:37.

EDIT: Here’s the written article of the video:
https://www.ign.com/articles/valves-next-gen-steam-machine-and-steam-controller-the-big-interview

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    You haven’t provided anything… to show that Valve are struggling with porting Steam OS to other hardware.

    And I’m not going to. Anyone who has been paying attention already knows it’s true.

    That doesn’t prove it’s not a priority of theirs.

    The fact that everyone and their mother has no problem doing it, and Valve has not been doing it, shows that it’s not. I’m not faulting them, I’m sure they have their reasons, its just strange, as you would think there’s a lot of money on the table that they’re not keen to pick up.

    If you thought I was suggesting that we should give Valve more grace than the developers of Bazzite, I think perhaps you focused on the wrong part of what I was trying to explain.

    I honestly don’t know what it is you’re trying to say. Valve is the only one that needs grace. Bazzite is doing it already.

    When you consider just how many people (reviewers especially) have been heavily critical of how difficult Steam Os was for them to run on other hardware

    Seems like you know it’s true as well. I’m not sure what you’re arguing about.

    you can perhaps understand that steam didn’t start out trying to make their OS compatible with every hardware under the sun.

    …why not? It’s clearly not that hard.

    And, for what it’s worth, Bazzite has the added benefit of the internet at large helping them. Valve is a company and their R&D isn’t handled by crowd source.

    It’s the same community. It’s Linux. It’s open source. The idea that they don’t have the resources that a handful of volunteers do is preposterous.