It’s not about emulation, it’s about bypassing copyright protection. Different laws cover that.

I mean, wasn’t switch 2 the fastest selling console of all time?

No, the fastest selling NINTENDO console (IIRC)

Review of the demo by Eurogamer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_E6ODBEMwM

Hell yeah

You don’t need to even have the launcher installed to claim the free EGS games. I usually claim them to support the developers.

Still, Steam does dominate a massive portion of the PC market.

Steam revenue in 2023: USD 8.5 bn.

Overall PC gaming revenue that year: 45 bn.

Steam is big but the biggest cash cows are Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft. Neither is on Steam.

Also, Microsoft uses their Windows monopoly to ship the Xbox Games store to almost every PC user.

If Steam had a dominating market position, the EU would have classified it as a gate keeper under the Digital Markets Act.

The meme about Valve/Steam “does nothing, keeps winning” is mostly true (I don’t think the average gamer knows about Valve’s contributions to FOSS).

Because of Fortnite EGS has a very big installed base. People added their friends on Epic because of Fortnite. And yet gamers buy other games on Steam instead. That may have something to do with the fact that the main page of EGS mainly promotes Epic’s own games, whereas Steam promotes third party games first.

Fuck their monopoly!

Interesting monopoly when the world’s biggest PC games – Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite – aren’t even on Steam.

I mean, no phone controller has the same layout as the steam controller.

100% exactly the same layout is impossible, when there has to be room for the phone cradle in the middle. If you want to clip the phone above the Steam Controller, just get one of those plastic holders where you can attach the regular Steam Controller at the bottom side.

If Valve could implement the software to support steaminput when streaming games to a phone from your PC or a cloud PC, that’d be kinda cool.

Steam Link already exists and Steam Input runs on the PC.

a controller with feature parity with the Steam Controller would be an innovation.

The phone’s touch screen already provides the touch pad functionality when using one of the controllers pictured above.

Maybe too far outside their wheelhouse still but can you imagine a Steam Phone?

Valve allows redistribution of the Steam client. Other than resources, there is little that would stop companies like Jolla to put the Steam client on their phones.

Would be cheaper than regular Steam Controller

Why would Valve make the same Steam Controller again but with a phone cradle in the middle and somehow make this cheaper? It would need to house the same hardware components as the regular Steam Controller AND possibly add an active cooler.

That’s even less realistic than Valve managers reading posts on Lemmy.

Why could a phone controller not have innovations such as those?

OP didn’t ask for additional innovations, OP asked for “the same functionality as the Steam Controller” which the slot-in things + the phone’s touch screen already provide.

Or https://github.com/cptpiepmatz/great-on-deck-search/blob/main/README.md for web browsers.

Console emulation.

Too bad it’s not available via RSS.

It’s not a podcast then. Podcast is a type of media delivery mechanism, not any recorded conversation.

Conveniently forgeting the part where valve creates a gambling system for kids, as usual.

Do you mean loot boxes in Counter-Strike? A) It’s not a game for kids. B) And no, I’m not getting involved with parenting of other people’s children, so I actually do not care.

But I get it, the only things that mathers is you.

I matter to me, yes.

There has actually been a case going around about Valve forcing price parity despite their official ToS not saying so, with emails from employees to devs as evidence.

They’re doing a shitty job at enforcement if your claim is true.

I can’t understand the amount of energy people spend defending Valve.

Valve uses my money to make the Linux FOSS stack better for everyone, including me. GOG doesn’t.

Buying on Steam instead of GOG serves my personal interests.

What’s wrong Heroic?

Not officially supported. Using the GUI with a controller is wonky.

You can install an Arch image as well. Distrobox should work fine with these OCI images: https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux-docker?tab=readme-ov-file#arch-linux-oci-images