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Imagine @steampowered.com releases a new version of Steamdeck, that is slightly more powerful, but comes without a display or controller, and works with external display and bluetooth controllers. Would you buy it? Sounded silly in 2018, doesn’t sound half-bad in 2024.

But you're a PC player. You're comfortable handling a PC. Meanwhile quite a lot of console userbase that wants more from their consoles than Call of Duty, FIFA, and Ubi-games is facing a real dilemma when the PS5 / Xbox X|S generation ends.

Fair point. My point of view is probably just too skewed to make a good call. What just scares me is how Steam is slowly but surely taking over the whole gaming market. Monopoly is never good for the customers, so I'd rather see some challengers succeed than giving too much power to Steam.

I agree there as well. I just wish they'd do it by competing properly, rather than trying to buy their way into the market with an inferior product and buying exclusives and just being contrarian to anything Steam does. i.e. Epic allowing NFT and crypto scams on their store because Steam didn't.

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