- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
The title is a bit misleading, as the article lists diverging analysts’ opinions, ranging from Valve willing to sell at a loss or low margins, to high prices due to RAM and SSD price volatility.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/2330473
Not an issue either. If you can have the money for a fiber optic hdmi cable then you have the money for a powered usb cable to extend the wireless range.
I’ve been gaming on PC that wasn’t near my TV for years since back during the 360/PS3 era. And hdmi and usb cable is all that’s been needed to get started. Nothing more complicated beyond that.
And OS front end? There’s Steam big picture mode or just use a cheap wireless keyboard like the K400 to navigate the desktop. You are talking to pc gamers who built a powerful pc. Im not talking about this set up to some console player and trying to convert them to PC. And I’m not trying to convince someone who wants a dedicated system for the TV so might want a dumbed down UI, but someone who has a powerful PC they use for desktop use and gaming and wants to play on the TV too without moving their PC.
Just showing there is a cheap affordable option using existing powerful hardware that one already has on hand if they want to also utilize it on their TV. But if someone insist on dropping hundreds or thousands more for a secondary system to play on the TV that’s fine too.
I’ve tried these couch keyboard mouse setups and they always suck.
I’m using the k400 to navigate desktop. I’m using my controller to play games. Kind of weird to go through the set up of playing on the couch in front of a TV away from the desk and thinking about using a mouse and keyboard instead of a controller.
Not an experience I would want personally. But that’s one of the differences between me and a PC gamer, PC gamers are happy to put up with a lot more crap with their gaming than I am.
No more crap than just playing on a monitor.
Well at a desk you don’t have to pull out the keyboard from wherever you stash it and put it on your lap every time you want to change games. It’s already there.
But of course I am comparing to console gaming where this option is a lot more crap in comparison.
Steam Big picture mode you don’t even need to bother with that. It can all be done through controller.
If you are familiar with Steam Deck that’s basically big picture mode.
And I just keep my K400 at the couch since that’s only time I use it. Sometimes I feel like browsing web a bit on the TV, or in game might want to utilize text chat. I use my PC to play video files to watch movies and shows, so pretty much multiple reasons for me beyond gaming.
Yeah I haven’t tried big picture mode lately but as I remember you still had to sometimes deal with keyboard and mouse to fix options or sometime edit files on the computer to make things work well on a given hardware. But maybe it’s improved since then.
Well yeah that’s just comes with being a PC. But, if you already got your games set up not really much need to do troubleshooting when TV gaming.
Like you can go on and on and on trying to find issues, but main point is for PC gamers who already have a gaming PC hdmi cable and controller is generally all that is needed to game on the TV. So they can save on needing another system just for the purpose of playing on a TV.
At that point if a PC is as troublesome as you keep making it out to be a Steam Machine or Steam Deck isn’t going to be any better if you truly want a simple as possible system like the console.