Steam Boxes failed because there are no great couch games for

>>388637950
>Why have a console just to play single player games on a big TV
Ask PS4 owners

>Why have a console just to play single player games on a big TV, or play FPS with people you'll never meet?
How fucking out of touch are you?

>>388637950
Most games I play on console are SP, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

>>388637950
Steam boxes failed because they appealed to a market that didn't exist. PC could have all the couch games in the world, nobody was interested in a weird PC/console hybrid, which very likely carries the drawbacks of both.

The real issue is that they're a solution looking for a problem.

Most people with Steam accounts already own gaming-capable PCs (or have just enough horsepower to play Dota2/CSGO and that's all they want). Those who want PC gaming on their TVs have a myriad of solutions: HDMI into TV from PC, Steam Link if their PC is too far and they don't want to set it up, or use a cheap laptop to stream games from their desktop.

Even if we go with a user who doesn't already own a gaming-capable PC, the Steam box is still a pretty bad proposition, given that they're generally expensive for their processing power and hard to upgrade as they age. If the user wants something small enough to fit inside an entertainment center, there already exist plenty of small form factor PCs cheaper than Steam boxes.

In the end, the only people buying Steam boxes would be people who didn't already have gaming PCs but somehow have Steam accounts and want a small PC purely dedicated to gaming with no other functions to put on a shelf. Can't imagine that market is particularly big.

>>388637950
The WiiU has party fighters and Mario party and it went down the toilet.

>>388637950
>because there are no great couch games for PC. No party fighters, no Mario Party style games, etc.
that's why PS4 and XBOX sells, right you massive retard?

>>388637950
I have what's in the pic and I use it under my TV to emulate up to PS2 and MAME and play

>Titanfall 2 from the couch with a controller

Hey its got an auto aim option lets use it.

>>388637950
No, they failed because Valve came up with a good idea and then immediately lost interest and dropped all support as usual

>>388637950
They failed because they were way too expensive and no-one understood what the fuck they were. And besides that, Steam OS was not going to succeed with the meager compatibility it had with most games.

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They failed because Valve abandoned them. Even when their partners sent them emails asking about Steam OS and Steam Boxes, they got no responses.

They came out?

PC player who regularly plays on their couch via HDMI here, shit isn't easy or comfortable half the time

Games like Tekken and STEEP work just fine from the couch due to there not being any small details worth squinting or leaning forward for. Shooters, RPGs, RTS, forget about it. Impossible to see from the couch. I have to chill on the floor if I want to play those on my TV