I think that it was just ahead of its time, and people didn&#x27;t really &quot;get it&quot;, and it wasn&#x27;t marketed with the right message or marketed enough. The next PlayStation and Xbox seem more like gaming PCs than consoles, and it looks like the market is trending toward a shared experience across all devices in the future.<p>I really hope that SteamOS continues and sees wide adoption, but I also agree from my experience mining btc on Linux years ago that drivers need to improve, as does the hack factor. As a sysadmin then, I struggled for hours to get the AMD + OpenCL stuff working right. Not sure if it&#x27;s better now, but no way would the mainstream accept that type of experience to play games.