Valve’s main goal is to promote Steam in any way, shape or form. Keep subscribers to it connected. And that’s GAMERS and DEVELOPERS so that they continue the money train. One way was PC gaming and creating the store. Another way was VR. Which lead right back to the store. And this portable is another. Leads right back to Steam.
It’s not about Valve making games. It’s so rare between releases, that we know they’re not about that anymore. Valve has only made one real game lately. But Alyx was to promote Steam in my opinion. Not a start for them to make games consistently again. That’s done.
It’s all about reoccurring revenue from Steam. And Valve’s biggest sales will come from Steam users and those who want a portable not controlled by Nintendo who takes their time on updating hardware.
It’s an excellent looking device. But it’s nothing to me as I’m a home console gamer mostly. I don’t use Steam. So I’m not the target user. It also doesn’t do VR. And I’ve gone through portables over the years before my tablet or my phone. They ended up in a drawer. Still there like my Nomad and Gameboy Advance. Except for the controls being built in compared with my Red Samurai Bluetooth controller. Emulation? I do that on my devices already. And when I’m away or on a vacation, the last thing I want to be doing is gaming. I want to enjoy the places, the food and the people. Gaming is great. But I don’t need it everywhere I go. And even with emulators on my phone or tablet, I just don’t use them much as before when I was younger. I just thought it was cool to fool my device to think it was something else. Like a Dreamcast or SNES.
But it’s just a device to push Steam and royalties from Steam sales. Valve will say It’s to open up portable gaming. But the reality is staring us in the face. It’s about money and keeping Indie developers close that ran to Nintendo.
