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I Think PlayStation’s All-Digital Future Makes It Clear: Owning Your Video Games Has Never Been More Important (www.ign.com)
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[–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

We're on the same boat. After having everything from the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intelevision, all the way to the PS5,this is where consoles die for me.

I'm waiting for a slight 'breeze' in my wallet to build my own Bazzite driven "Steam Machine" and calling it a day.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I did something that you might find viable as an option but there was a lot of work involved to do it, including running wires through my walls and automating some things and writing scripts. But I have a button in my living room that turns on my gaming PC and I can play all my games over LAN via KVM

    So basically when I press the button, I have a custom launch screen I built that times down from 30 seconds. This means if I turn my PC on at my desk I can still just choose desktop and use it as normal. If I choose "big mode" or let it time out then it runs a script and turns off PC monitors, sets my video to the TV, sets my audio sink to the TV's HDMI port (pulseaudio is a motherfucker, why do I have dozens of dynamic audio sinks??), and launches emulationstation. Which is a very nice UI that launches all emulators from NES era up to PS3 and Nintendo Switch. It also launches all my steam games. I use the USB ports on the KVM for controllers.

    I fine tuned all my emulators quite a bit. Upscaled graphics to 4K, a couple scripts to make sure controllers don't get stuck to only controlling emulationstation after launching a game, my original wavebird GameCube controller was pretty bad about this haha. I think it had something to do with the adapter. Most of them work great though, esp if it's just wired straight to USB

    The KVM I got is great. It does 4K @ 60hz with no latency that I can tell. Here is a link. $160 was a small price to pay to be able to play all my games in the living room with a banging sound system, etc. https://a.co/d/07NeJ4NH

    I did have to run a dedicated Ethernet wire just for this. It goes from the transmitter to the receiver through my basement. I'm considering running a long USB from the receiver back through my basement to plug in controllers next to the couch, but that's down the line a bit once I start running speaker cables for surround sound.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    This is seriously interesting. Thank you.

    Could you share the implementation and architecture with us (minus all the PII, of course).

    I have a network closet that runs 2 - 3 cat 6a cables (3 if there's an AP in that room, 2 if not) to each room in the house plus all the CCTV cameras oitside (direct to frigate in Home Assistant, with Coral TPU and all that good stuff), so it could be I don't have to run more wires (maybe the USB, sound like a solid idea).

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    My friend gave me an ASRock Extreme4 Z97 motherboard. I'm gonna try putting CachyOS on it and see how it runs games. That'll be my own Steam Machine if it meets my performance expectations.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    The Steam machine stats are absolutely pathetic by PC Master Race standards... but that's the thing--they are actually targetting the median Steam user and they have the data. I think the most common GPU is around a 2060 right now. We reached the start of the top of the S- curve a decade ago, at least.

    Edit: Nope, it's 1060. Bwahahaha.

    Edit: Ugh. It was a 1060 I guess when DDG was training it's AI. Currently 3060.

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