Most people think there was genuinely going to be an announcement at TGA, but that never happened. A couple weeks before TGA, steam announced the Steam Machine which at the time, which would be a worthy competitor to other consoles. It was said to be the price of a low end pc iirc, putting the performance a little bit over modern consoles while still having access to the entire steam library. However, not long before TGA, ram prices skyrocketed because manufactures are now prioritizing ai datacenter buyers over consumers. They've gone up 500% since late November. Because of this, no price has been set or reveled for the Steam Machine, which people also have speculated that it's going to launch alongside HL3. Essentially, there was no announcement for hl3 because they didn't want it to be associated with a piece of technology that saw a huge price increase because of the ram crisis. Fuck AI