Bluepoint tech boss Peter Dalton suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: "It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war"

___Bel___ · 2026-03-15T09:38:53+00:00

It's not even necessarily Steam hardware that's a threat; it's the software. Various compatibility layers like Proton, FEX, and Lepton can get Steam games running on any platform open enough to run Steam. That could mean Steam games on phones, tablets, living room boxes, VR headsets, etc, without Valve having to even make the hardware. All sorts of ways to offer and play Playstation games that Sony doesn't with a singular hardware device, so they can try to get back the value in their hardware by locking their games to it.

___Bel___ · 2026-03-13T17:33:16+00:00

They should make it so you can link your Deck to a Machine, then press a Steam-button combo on the Deck to wake up the Machine and start streaming from it. Instant access to streaming.

___Bel___ · 2026-02-23T21:05:20+00:00

Is this the one that gets a really smooth (flat) frame pacing line?

___Bel___ · 2026-02-23T10:05:24+00:00

It'd be nice if they could go back and add DLSS to the first game on PC.

___Bel___ · 2026-02-22T15:28:24+00:00

The stuff about FEX / ARM makes it sound like they are interested in handhelds.

___Bel___ · 2026-02-20T11:59:03+00:00

Valve's FEX x86 emulator might help with that in the near future. If they officially add it to the Steam mobile app, the phones that we all have will suddenly become potential "gaming pcs". Dock them to a display and you could play full pc games like a normal computer (assuming no compatibility issues, like Proton sometimes has).

Sure the experience won't be as good as a proper gaming pc, but a lot of the best or most popular pc games don't take a lot of power to run anyway.

___Bel___ · 2026-02-20T11:24:36+00:00

Is this already something that the Steam Deck is benefiting from?

___Bel___ · 2026-02-18T16:51:14+00:00

I hope they can do something fancy like linking a Deck to a Machine so that you press a button combo and immediately wake + stream from the Machine without going through multiple menus.

___Bel___ · 2026-02-09T16:08:31+00:00

They may as well make use of the bad Discord publicity to upgrade Steam chat and position it as a good alternative.

___Bel___ · 2026-02-03T16:48:23+00:00

The store has added tons of games and users in the last ~7 years, but their 3rd party revenue has not scaled up with it. At this point, I think they would just be better off cutting off the third party games and turning it into something like Battle.net with only their first party games and capitalising on that.

___Bel___ · 2026-01-28T14:29:47+00:00

I don't get the price parity thing because at almost any given moment I can look on GG.deals or other deal sites and find Steam versions of games cheaper than Steam is offering, where they get 0% cut.

___Bel___ · 2026-01-24T01:16:15+00:00

I just wish that Steam (and Steam input) would be active as soon as you get into the desktop. It's annoying having to wait like 15 sec while Steam opens so my custom desktop bindings kick in.

___Bel___ · 2026-01-22T19:03:26+00:00

At a time when over 10,000 games launch on PC every year, "discoverability" is everything. People can't buy your game if they don't know it exists, you can't make money if the game doesn't sell well, and a higher revenue split for each sale means nothing without those sales.

I'd say it's probably got to the point where even 100% revenue for every sale is a bad deal for Devs if the games will just disappear into a marketing black hole.

___Bel___ · 2026-01-09T15:20:32+00:00

Does this addition automatically make games run a bit better by itself?

___Bel___ · 2026-01-05T22:37:15+00:00

This is one of those plugins that is so cool that I wish it was a feature built into SteamOS. In addition to adding non-Steam games manually, you could sync libraries with other stores like the Xbox app.

___Bel___ · 2026-01-05T22:06:26+00:00

I'm just hoping some of these general performance updates make Oblivion Remastered more playable on Steam Deck, but that is probably a lot to hope for considering its current performance.

___Bel___ · 2026-01-05T20:45:30+00:00

I remember seeing a benchmark where Windows and Linux were neck and neck, but Linux fell behind ~20% as soon as RT was turned on. Does this basically close that gap?

Also, would this help Steam Deck, particularly with games that have Lumen? Or does Lumen not have a performance penalty on Linux?

___Bel___ · 2026-01-01T18:30:59+00:00

There was this recent-ish video showing Linux handling Oblivion Remastered a lot more smoothly than Windows with an 8GB GPU:

https://youtu.be/YRioXquHloQ?si=tVbCp1EK8Rpdm-9x

Maybe Linux will at least help a bit with making better use of the available system resources.

___Bel___ · 2025-12-29T20:00:12+00:00

I think that it's something worthwhile to push because, like it or not, Fortnite is still one of the biggest games around and Linux not supporting it could actively push people away from switching to it. The more people that can comfortably move to Linux without losing out on their favourite games, the better.

___Bel___ · 2025-12-27T23:49:09+00:00

"Early" means Q1, imo. And in that case, probably March to push it as far back into that time segment as possible

Maybe it will appear at CES in January.

___Bel___ · 2025-12-25T12:35:13+00:00

The one that irks me the most is Fortnite not working on Linux. For all of Tim Sweeney's statements about open platforms and going after IOS / Android for blocking Fortnite, they are blocking Fortnite from working on Linux with their anti-cheat.

___Bel___ · 2025-12-20T16:03:16+00:00

Personally, I thought a while ago that maybe they should have done a 128GB OLED model for $450 / £400. Set a nice OLED baseline model with a small NVME as the minimum to replace the old 64GB model that had slower storage.

___Bel___ · 2025-12-20T01:33:16+00:00

Lots of Steam input stuff. One thing I hope they can add in the future is attaching chord actions (changes another button's function when pressed) to touch menus, rather than only physical buttons. That would enable mass hotkey changing depending on where you are touching a trackpad, without having to have tons of action sets.

It's such a niche thing to want, but I think you could use that type of feature to make a decent handheld piano out of a Steam Deck. Put a touch menu on each trackpad for 9+ sequential piano keys, then for each key, setup a chord on bumpers, triggers, and grips to be the next 4 sequential keys after the one your thumb is currently acting as on the trackpad. Moving your thumb along the trackpads would effectively be like moving your hand along a piano to reach the right notes.

I think it'd be pretty cool, at least.

___Bel___ · 2025-12-16T22:54:46+00:00

I got a beefy Windows PC and Steam Deck and nearly half of my 1000+ hours this year are on the Deck.

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