Steam Handheld

>>61969324
because its a dumb idea that probably wont sell.
Who are they gonna sell it to, broke indie-shit loveres?

>>61970602
There are shit ton of easy to run games on steam. I would imagine it could do what steam machines failed at. And with support for inhome streaming and whatever it seems to great idea.

>>61970682
Once again, who would buy it.
The logistics of it are just not there.
A)good luck finding a x86 processor to fit that power envelope without sucking. On top of that, it would almost certainly be running some custom linux install so tehn you are reducing yourselves to linux compatible steam games.
B) You could use ARM and basically just make an android device with a gamepad attached. Then you are stuck with which ever games have been ported to android or maybe linux if they choose to do that.

Either way it wont be very cheap, will have a gimped library and probably will have a shit battery life.

>>61970783
It would inevitably be a streaming device. It would suffer from bandwidth issues depending on which room you went into.

*slurps Valve's proprietary semen*

MMMMMMMMM it's SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!

*slurp slurp*
*suckle*

I don't want a fully functional handheld computer that I can freely install software on, I want one that only plays Steam games!!!

*flushes contents of wallet down the toilet buying digital copies of games that he could have easily downloaded for free without installing the bloated Steam spyware client*
*uses tongue as Gaben's toilet paper every day*

I don't want to be free, I want to be a little cuckslave for the rest of my life!!!!

>>61970783
Yeah hardware is an issue I agree there. But game Library on Linux is somewhat decent as far as easy to run games are concerned. And those games already have a playerbase, to whom this device would be easy to market too.

>>61970783
the problem here is valve cant make a fun game

cant build a library one would pay for. dont have the talent. few do.