>Valve and HTC are now buttbuddies
>HTC makes a phone with control buttons/sticks
>Valve makes a SteamOS distro for it
>Full access to your non-demanding Steam games with Linux support
>able to continue playing them portably with saves being in the steam cloud
Why cant this happen?
Valve please
Sony tried with that Xperia Play or something, in an attempt to make a "gaming phone". It died pretty quick. If you want to play games decently, you're better off buying something made primarily for that purpose, not something with gaming shoved in.
>>334286954
I would be ok with this
>>334287187
The difference is that steam has an enormous game library
>>334287187
What if it was a portable gaming device with a phone shoved in?
>>334286954
After the whole "steam machine" fiasco Valve learned not to make a product nobody actually wants
>>334287352
Google Play has an equally big library with games which are interesting to casuals so your point isn't valid
>>334286954
>streaming games over LTE
>spotty coverage
>wireless company will throttle you at first
>then they'll make you pay a premium and call it gamer-LTE
Don't tell me the device itself will run the games natively, because that's just stupid.
>>334287452
I can't comment on that since i honestly never use my phone to make calls or text. I think the last time i texted was maybe like 4 months ago...
>>334287815
who the fuck said streaming?
>>334287629
steam machines will be more interesting when developers start using Vulkan API that can make it easier to port games to Linux.
>>334287728
>99% of games on Google Play are garbage
>Xperia Play fails
Given that most games on Steam are decent, that automatically gives a steam phone a higher chance of success.
>>334286954
because valve has been half assing everything they've done in the last 5+ years since they have too much money from steam and have no idea what to do with it or where to take steam
only reason they haven't gone the way of nintendo is because there are no generational resets in the pc market due to the store being completely digital
>>334286954
>playing 100% Orange Juice on my phone
I'd be into it
>>334286954
I would be interested in buying this if it was decent phone-wise, which htc can already do
>>334288854
not a linux game
>>334288131
>Given that most games on Steam are decent
>>334288854
>playing a board game on a 4 inch screen
>>334288962
Oh right, I forgot about Valve's hard on for Linux
>>334286954
>steamos distro
alright, so
you can't run normal, x86 vidya on arm. you just can't, something as large, low-level and complicated as big game engine written for desktop machines is super hard to port, few devs would want to do it
and this is why this can't happen. You can run hl2 or talos principle on arm machines because there are ports, that's best you can get. devs have to put a lot of effort into porting something from x86 to arm opengl es thingie (not to mention shitload of optimization work), and when they port, they just put it on android market like every reasonable person would do. As long as steam won't start pushing devs to port (at least small unity indie crap) on ARM, they don't have any reason to be alive on portable device market
>but you can put x86 cpu on portable device
there are windows tablets, go get one + bluetooth gamepad, have fun. It should run q3a gothic, maybe even oblivion on minimum.
>>334286954
Because no one fucking wants that. The mobile phone market is ultra competitive.
>>334288964
Well, if you're not autistic anyway
Yeah, I bet a phone with its own operating system and stupid performance shits will definitely be able to play steam games that will absolutely destroy the storage of the phone.
Yes I want to play Age of Empires on a 5 button controller and a 5-inch screen.
>>334286954
Good as this sounds, even your non=demanding games likely dont have a UI designed for handheld screens. Learned that the hard way with Vita's remote play.
>>334289247
why the fuck is a SteamOS phone gonna have a ARM CPU? There are micro CPUs that are x86 like Intel Atom.
Isn't Valve already going to release a portable that plays a good chunk of the Steam library? Supposed to be coming out at the end of this year.
