With respect, that isn’t at all what I said. I’m not talking about how difficult it is to draw a triangle on the screen. I’m talking about multiplatform releases being a major headache because there difference in performance is vast. You don’t need to take my word for it, it’s regularly discussed in developer…

I’m not sure how many people will go out of their way to install Windows, just to have access to EGS or 3rd party apps.

FTL works great. Quite why they bothered with the pad on the left, though, still mystifies me. And they’ve just done it again.

Um. Weird question but why are you so worried about “profit margin”? There’s like 20+ posts of yours with this topic.

I’d be amazed if the bot sellers weren’t already harvesting Steam accounts prior to this, because it’s an obvious next move on the table for the Sybil attack.

I was wondering why my new motherboard had a heatsink for the NVMe slot. Touched the stick and found out.

I don’t know how many PC players would buy this thing just to play the latest Call of Duty.

I was a little surprised to read it has an SD slot for expansion instead of M.2/NVMe. SD cards are fine for photo/video storage but for games/OS stuff you’ll wear out the write cycles pretty rapidly, as I understand it.

Valve pretty much announced that it’s being sold at a loss, yeah.

I used to use a docked laptop at work, for that kind of thing it rapidly becomes a cost win for basically anyone who works at more than one desk. At the time I remember thinking about how great it would be if someone put a halfway decent gaming GPU in the dock, with proper cooling. The main issue with gaming laptops…

The dual touchpads didn’t make much sense on the Steam Controller and they make even less sense here. When the device real estate is this cramped I don’t understand why they’d include such niche appeal inputs, especially given that they seem to shove the popular controls to the periphery where they’ll be an ergonomic…

Enjoy the same battery life too!

Yeah. Looking at the spec, it’s a PC. No more, no less. They’re being quite up front about this side of things.

PCSX2 and Dolphin have pretty modest requirements on PC, neither should give it any trouble. I’m mainly wondering how it performs with RPCS3 and Xenia - I could see portable PS3 and 360 being a big draw. I don’t really play on handhelds (they cramp up my hands), so I’m not in the market for this, but as a laptop-spec…

You’ve had the distinction patiently explained to you three times mate. This device is a PC. It is not locked to a Steam account. If you don’t believe Kotaku, maybe PC Gamer will convince you:

Steam has problems but it is not “absolutely fuck all”.

I quite liked The Darkness. The comics were grimdark edgelord nonsense, very 90s, but I seem to remember the game deviated a fair bit and was improved as a result. The gameplay was also enjoyably weird and varied, the developers took a bunch of risks making it - quite an adventurous title, really.

am I massively underestimating the bootleg video game market?

What’s your source on that? As I understand it, ASCII were the ones kicking out the hardware standards and advocating for the platform (magazines etc), and Sony was just one of many licensees.