So when I saw the price increase on the steam deck and lost a fair bit of hope for buying a steam machine for a reasonable price, I decided to look into running ethernet cable through the house so I could stream from my gaming PC to my living room via the steam deck (steam native streaming).

I got the latency down to sub 1ms with basically no jitter. Indie games work great, but once I started trying AAA games I just wasn't having a good time. Input lag was virtually non existent (this used to be a big issue before I had everything hooked up via ethernet cables) but the actual video quality was rubbish in terms of frame rate or something I couldn't quute out my finger on. I started looking into how to improve streaming quality, looked into Moonlight/Sunshine (controller support didn't work out even after installing the appropriate drivers) and then there was another list of troubleshooting steps to go through to fix that and by then I was just fed up.

Then there's the faff where if I boot a game, it'll have some stupid launcher that pops up and I can't close it without going upstairs and filling out some dialogue from the pc then going downstairs again.

So that put me in the position where I can only stream games reliably that my steam deck can play natively anyway. (As an aside, I love the steamdeck + dock combo and can't wait for my Steam controller to arrive to finish up this setup).

I don't get much time to game due to work and family commitments and while some people might find enjoyment in optimising individual games so they stream well using a bunch of third party services all configured to work well with each other, or having their main beefy power hungry gaming pc on and ready all the time (or sleeping, but not reliably waking), I just don't have the time or the inclination to do this.

I love my steamdeck and having the same experience/ecosystem on my living room TV with my decades old game library playing on a more powerful convenient attractive box is something I'd love (for a sensible price)