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Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@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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[–] 83 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I should note that 30% is incredibly standard in the industry, and Valve offers a LOT more for that 30% than literally any other digital publisher. Physical publishers take substantially more, and the only digital store that offers less is EGS, which is simultaneously absolute dogshite and also has been trying very, very hard to astroturd the '30%' thing for ages.

Nintendo, Sony, and Apple all take 30%. I think MS does as well, but don't quote me on that one.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    don't forget google. that applies to all paid apps, in app purchases and donations on the play store, not only for games. google also forbids you from showing any other donation option on your website if you link to it from your app.

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

    Fwiw, GOG has no DRM for their titles (its own niche space, not competition). Not sure if they charge 30% too, but even in such case they're giving you more because of the lack of DRM.

    Steam is quite virtuous, they gave us Proton. But is far from being based.

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

    GoG also sold the modern hitman games which have DRM.

    There are also many games on Steam that are DRM free, you may need to use the Steam Client to download them (but possibly also Steam CMD) but then you can copy the files off as a backup and run them without Steam

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    GOG has no DRM, but they also don't offer the same kind of services, like workshop, updates, cloud sync, etc.

    Not trying to say they're worse or anything, I love GOG, but it's really kind of comparing apples to oranges here.

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