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With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market
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Ok forgive me for sounding stupid but imagine a tv with steam os built in.
I'd rather my TV be a TV, so that I can use it to display whatever I want, instead of being locked to a certain system and hardware configuration.
Same, all I want is a big display with good CEC support for volume, power on/off and input control.
In way it's already a thing. You can install Steam Link on TVs running Android TV
True but imagine a gaming tv with all the hardware requirements, and true steam os, you could turn it on and load up a game straight from the tv and not have to stream it
That TV will be obsolete in a heartbeat, on top of being a pain in the ass to keep a good airflow.
Not necessarily if it was upgrade friendly and had a built in cooling chamber and or fan / vents, I’d say it’s doable
Or they could just put a port in the TV where you could plug in your choice of gaming device.
So basically attaching regular PC to the TV...
I find moonlight/sunshine work better, also available on android tvs
As a virtual machine I could see that and it's possibly the only way such a product would be viable. The thing is, stadia tried this in a round about fashion and it failed. Geforce now does basically this and it's available as an app on lots of streaming boxes and smart TVs. So effectively this kind of already exists in a way that's less prone to obsolescence but I'm not sure most people want it because of the tradeoffs of a required internet connection etc. It's the kind of thing that sounds like something people would want until you even stop to think about it for a moment. The more you think about it the worse an idea it seems.
There's different demographics of gamers out there. It's not useful to most of them for lots of reasons like built in anti-cheat, drm, requirement of an internet connection even for solo/story mode games, the fact that some gamers want bleeding edge everything while others want stability. Still others only play older games and for them this doesn't do much except make finding drivers and virtual environments harder. Then there's the mod community etc. It just seems like it would be a nightmare for a lot of people.
Also. If you've ever taken apart a modern TV you know how finicky and fragile some of the parts and pieces are. I wouldn't want to attempt to upgrade my ram just to end up damaging the backlight module or the screen.