Ayaneo's Next portable gaming PC runs SteamOS out of the box [set to be the first non-Valve SteamOS handheld, it seems]

Diplomjodler3 , 5 months ago

So do Valve actually license Steam OS now? I thought it wasn’t fully open source? Or are they using Chimera?

festus , 5 months ago

It’s not released yet but it’s one of Valve’s goals.

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Diplomjodler3 , 5 months ago

Interesting article. I’m still hoping for a Steam box, though…

cygnus , 5 months ago

2024 is the year of the Linux desktop handheld!

randomaside , 5 months ago

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Caligvla , 5 months ago

Nice. Hopefully this is sold in places other than US and a handful of EU countries.

gibmiser , 5 months ago

I love valve, but competition is a good thing. Good luck to them.

helenslunch , 5 months ago

No competition here. This device will be used to buy/sell Steam games. Same purpose as the Steam Deck.

PlzGivHugs , 5 months ago

Competition in terms of hardware is still competition, regardless of if Valve maintains their share in another market. Even then, SteamOS seems to be primarily an attempt to disrupt an even bigger, more powerful, and more malicious monopoly: Microsoft.

helenslunch , 5 months ago

It’s been discussed Ad Nauseum at this point but it’s very likely Valve is making little to no money on Steam Deck hardware. That’s why they’re so much cheaper than everyone else. So no, I don’t think it is.

PlzGivHugs , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Again, that doesn’t mean they’re not competeing. Valve is using their presence in the online retailer market to help fund their hardware, but its not like they’re releasing them for free or anything and its not like most other hardware OEMs can’t do this. Companies like Asus and MSI aren’t small companies, they can and do use the same tactics if the market is worth it. Even assuming they’re released literally at-cost, Valve isn’t exactly an established OEM - other companies already have decades of experience, established computer manufacturing and logistics networks, Valve is the new disruptior trying to get established, not the other way around.

helenslunch , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

The point is, Valve doesn’t care if you choose to buy an Ally or a Go or a Claw or any of the dozens of Ayaneo devices instead of a Steam Deck, because at the end of the day, they’re still making money selling games. In fact they’d probably prefer you buy someone else’s devices and they can leave the handheld market altogether and refocus their resources onto SteamOS or any of their other products or services.

I think that makes them NOT competitors.

conciselyverbose , 5 months ago

Valve wants nothing more than for other devices to ship Steam OS. They make some money on them, especially more expensive tiers, but the purpose is to allow people to play more games on PC instead of consoles, and in particular Linux so they're less reliant on Microsoft.

They don't actually care who sells the hardware.