Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
Valve's track record with non-VR hardware is, to put it politely, not good.<p>Seven years after launching the Steam machine (2014) initiative, there are no Steam machines available for sale. [1]<p>Both the Steam Controller (2015-2019) and Steam Link (2015-2018) are discontinued and cannot be purchased, despite consistently positive reviews from users. [2]<p>As other commenters have noted there are already numerous "Switch-like, but x86" products that exist, and it's unclear to me what innovation Valve can bring to the space.<p>IMHO if Valve wants to be taken seriously in the hardware market, they need to stop pulling a Google and actually support/iterate/not discontinue their existing hardware products (before someone adds that they <i>did</i> support these through firmware updates, I mean updating the hardware to keep up with the times, Steam Link with apps or 4K, etc).<p>[1] <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steam_machines</a><p>[2] <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=993" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=993</a>