That's no-brainer news. How would an exclusive title just for the Steam Machine even work? It's a PC. Launching it on Steam but forbidding everyone but Steam Machine users to buy or download it? How would they even check that accurately? This would probably be easy to get around.

They aren't putting exclusives on the steam machine because it's a fucking PC and not a console.

This article is stupid as fuck.

What a silly premise for an article.

How would that even work if they did make excusives since it's just a pc? Run a hardware check and stop the game from launching if it doesn't detect steam machine hardware?

Anyone who posts an article claiming something like a console concept of “exclusives” either misunderstands or is an idiot. Steam machine is a prebuilt gaming Pc not a game console. To ensure it only ran certain software would ruin the whole purpose

Bloomberg was the actual news outlet that interviewed Valve, og link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-07-17/valve-s-14-year-journey-to-make-the-steam-machine

Bloomberg doesn't know shit about PC Gaming, so that's expected. RPS is only cashing in by drawing traffic through stupidly controversial headlines.

I have a question maybe dumb to ask because I don’t consider myself a gamer as such but do gamers really want exclusive games? To me, it seems terrible to the end consumer because it means you get locked into their ecosystems bit by bit, or maybe even you bought a whole console, spending 500 bucks just to play one game that codt you another 70 bucks

I know Proton has to fool the windows binary to some degree to make it think it is just running on windows, but I wonder if it is possible for a game developer to offer a "Played this game on a steam deck / steam machine", or less specifically, "under SteamOS / Proton", achievement without resorting to a separate Linux binary?

they're not wrong

I know with other hardware they've included a free game, but it's been something generally available that the hardware just comes with that usually shows off the features or serves as an orientation of sorts.

I can't really think of what features they would want to show off with the steam machine.