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Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame (lemmy.world)
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Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

Also listed here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Valve has already sent support for the new Steam Controller upstream: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL

Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame for release in 2026. There is an image of a Steam Controller, which looks like a hybrid between the original Steam Controller and the layout and trackpads of the Steam Deck.
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[–] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

It's fucking wild. Like, I love Steam, don't get me wrong, but holy shit just suck less (edit: than other stores do) and charge less (edit: of devs) and you could gobble up a lot of that market share. But none of them do.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Notably Epic charges less than 30% (something like 12% IIRC) to try to get more of that market. They even give away games. But their app is still inferior so it gets less use.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Because Epic doesn't care about end users and won't add necessary end user features like reviews.

    It's cool that Epic wants to pay developers more, but the way they disregard the consumer makes the platform non-viable

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  • [–] -4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Most other competitors charge less than steam, but steam has a clause which prevents devs from putting their games cheaper elsewhere. This is the real big shitty move made by valve, otherwise they do mostly everything right. I hope someone challenges this clause in a court of law someday, it looks very monopolistic to me

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Except that is a thing only for selling steam keys outside steam. There are no price parity clauses.

    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    Also here is a gamedev saying that they'll sell their game for a cheaper price on EGS: https://twitter.com/HeardOfTheStory/status/1700066610302603405

    https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/heard-of-the-story-ff3758

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1881940/Heard_of_the_Story/

    If what you saying was actually the case I am 120% sure Tim Sweeney would be all over it lol.

    Lastly, there was ALREADY a case like that (Valve vs. Wolfire). The courts couldn't find anything regarding Wolfire's claims and then dismissed the case.

    https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-22-judge-dismisses-wolfires-antitrust-lawsuit-against-valve

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