I've been saying this for years and always get roasted alive for not wanting to shell out ~$500 just to be able to play one fucking game.

The only reason I ever got to play the new god of war games is because I got into a relationship with someone who has a Playstation. If she didn't have one I'd have never played.

It's the same way I am with the switch 2. I'm not buying a whole new console just for a new Zelda (which I don't even like anymore) or potentially a new smash bros.

You likely have reporters thinking it is a console.

If this was oracle/microsoft there would be a publicly available environment variable you can just set yourself, but is technically illegal.

I guess you could do a linux exclusive?

Not providing a terminal and desktop environment, for instance? Locking down the BIOS? What would it matter if it ran Linux if you could never leave Steam Big Picture?

Half Life: Linux

It's more work to make a shittier experience for their customers. Valve knows that alienating customers is the dumbest possible move to make.

I think it's more likely making a game that's exclusive to Steam/PC. I don't think there's really any way to make one exclusive to the Steam Machine. At most, it could be exclusive to Linux.

It’s estimated that they’re selling 12,000-15,000 Steam Machines a weeks and my non-professional back-of-the-napkin math says that’s five figure levels.

What a painfully stupid article to write

You missed the false advertising as 4k gaming machine. Which it simply isn't. It's a 1080p gaming machine