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Valve reportedly cooking native Linux version of Half-Life: Alyx, optimized for Steam Frame VR (www.tweaktown.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a "Frame Verified" status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.

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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

No. They've told LTT and Gamers Nexus that these will not be loss leaders. They want to make hardware sustainable for themselves

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

    Yeah. You can sell 'pure consoles' at a loss and make it up with games sales. This is basically a mini PC that you could reinstall the OS and use for any purpose. Selling it at a loss would be crazy.

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

    100000% it would be crazy. If I remember correctly, the xbox one and ps4 weren't really sold as loss leaders, that or they were priced closer to their manufacturing cost.

    I have been thinking, I don't think it really matters to them what the consumer does with their machine. I mean, at the end of the day, you're still gonna be buying steam games simply for the service.

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