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Yeah and they unleashed some not and trolls to critic Linux gale experience, saying that Xbox give more performance and play more games.
Comparing Xbox to steamdeck but melt down and go for personnal insult pr deforming ypur words when you tell them to compare a Xbox with a linux PC with same specs than xbox
SteamOS does not scare the shit out of them at all. Microsoft’s money is in dominating the business world. They like being in the video game world but it’s only a portion of their portfolio whereas Valve is all in. Plus SteamOS didn’t hurt them last time, why would they believe it will this time? Maybe it will, but unfortunately smart money is not betting against microsoft on this. Valve will continue to nibble at the edges and expand linux gaming, which is awesome, but look what it’s taken to get to just under 5% of the gaming market (that’s ALL of linux btw, not SteamOS).
Until Valve offers commercial offerings (never) I think M$ isn’t losing sleep. They aren’t even on the same plane in terms of scale and resources. They’re competing for handheld pc gaming, but it’s not high stakes for microsoft at all.
It’s not really fair to talk about SteamOS 2 and compare it to 3. The original concept tried console gaming and failed, because it was banking on devs porting games to native Linux. With Proton, things are a very different beast.
Windows is unlikely to be unthroned from gaming king, but Linux has grown quarter over quarter and Valve very clearly is expanding into multiple partners with Lenovo’s new SteamOS handheld.
Having a competitor in this space will hopefully get Microsoft to stop being complacent.
Honestly at this point Microsoft has a much bigger problem with people abandoning PC/laptops for smart phones and tablets, a space that they do not occupy at all. Steam/Valve is not the major problem
SteamOS scares the shit out of them, though, given that they’re creating a “competitor”.
Yeah and they unleashed some not and trolls to critic Linux gale experience, saying that Xbox give more performance and play more games. Comparing Xbox to steamdeck but melt down and go for personnal insult pr deforming ypur words when you tell them to compare a Xbox with a linux PC with same specs than xbox
SteamOS does not scare the shit out of them at all. Microsoft’s money is in dominating the business world. They like being in the video game world but it’s only a portion of their portfolio whereas Valve is all in. Plus SteamOS didn’t hurt them last time, why would they believe it will this time? Maybe it will, but unfortunately smart money is not betting against microsoft on this. Valve will continue to nibble at the edges and expand linux gaming, which is awesome, but look what it’s taken to get to just under 5% of the gaming market (that’s ALL of linux btw, not SteamOS).
Until Valve offers commercial offerings (never) I think M$ isn’t losing sleep. They aren’t even on the same plane in terms of scale and resources. They’re competing for handheld pc gaming, but it’s not high stakes for microsoft at all.
It’s not really fair to talk about SteamOS 2 and compare it to 3. The original concept tried console gaming and failed, because it was banking on devs porting games to native Linux. With Proton, things are a very different beast.
Windows is unlikely to be unthroned from gaming king, but Linux has grown quarter over quarter and Valve very clearly is expanding into multiple partners with Lenovo’s new SteamOS handheld.
Having a competitor in this space will hopefully get Microsoft to stop being complacent.
Honestly at this point Microsoft has a much bigger problem with people abandoning PC/laptops for smart phones and tablets, a space that they do not occupy at all. Steam/Valve is not the major problem
There are a lot of things encroaching on Microsoft these days. Death by a thousand cuts.