Valve: “there are things phones are good at. There are things phones are bad at. And there theres the failed attempts to blur the lines. We here at valve have watched others spin their wheels stuck in the mud with their brilliant efforts to make terrible ideas work. We have a different idea….
What about a phone that just does phone things and when it needs heavier lifting, it doesn’t rape your battery or wallet to get it done? Instead, it seamlessly reaches out to your already powerful gaming rig at home? You install an app on our phone, and that tells your pc at home to install the same app automatically. Now when you tap that icon on the Home Screen, your phone taps into the massive power and connivence of an already working rig at home and streams it to your device!
We are compatible with backbone, Xbox and PlayStation, and of course steam machine controllers.
We here at valve don’t see the merit of spending tons of money marketing a compromise. Sell it once. Do it right. If we do the damn job right, you’ll come back for more. No abusive lock ins.
We call it the steam whistle. Small, portable, cheap, but everyone will notice it.”
The market for a setup like that would be pretty small. The average person just has a craptop that isn’t switched on most of the time. Many don’t even bother with that.
Now when you tap that icon on the Home Screen, your phone taps into the massive power and connivence of an already working rig at home and streams it to your device!
??? Steam link came out in 2018 and is still available.
Moonlight, Sunshine and Xbox have also been a thing for a very long time.
I’m not talking about those. The idea here is the apps still look and behave like local apps. You don’t open an app to open an app. One tap and it just does the thing.
Okay there are probably better names but I’m drunk and don’t have access to my full vocabulary at the moment.
Side quest: a Serena Special is jagermeister, goldschlager, rumpleminze, and a splash of 151. It’s not a drink to be enjoyed. It’s a drink with a job to do. A drink with a career. A gainfully employed beverage. It pays taxes.
A drag queen in the area named Serena Hunter. The idea is you get drunk fast. Down this and go on stage. It hits you like a train and everyone gets to watch you deal with it.
No, I actually do like Steam Whistle. It goes well with the rest of Valve’s nomenclature. I figured people would just like to see an old-timey picture of the past.
I’m probly stating the obvious. I’m usually a little behind the curve
… But this steamframe thing … It’s already a phone, pretty much.
It just needs different apps now.
get rid of the vr stuff and add a normal touchscreen instead, make the UI a bit more phone-like, add a cellular connection, get rid of monochrome and add color cameras, make it a little thinner, integrate the battery, add a bunch of phone apps (calculator, texts, calls, browser, notes, email, camera, etc)
computing-wise, it is very similar tho, it has the exact same processor that’s in my phone, just a bit more ram, can be configured to have the same amount of storage
I just looked through the PC Gamer article from 3 days ago. They tore it down a bit. Ya, its pretty VR specific hardware. Looks pretty cool, actually. But it’s two screens built in a curved visor-shaped case. That aint no phone.
I was being silly to point out that it would be very easy for them to jump to just making phones. They are mostly there.
Gaming on a phone is an abomination. There are many fun time wasters but I want a phone that does less, not more. Internet, Camera, GPS, done.
Valve: “there are things phones are good at. There are things phones are bad at. And there theres the failed attempts to blur the lines. We here at valve have watched others spin their wheels stuck in the mud with their brilliant efforts to make terrible ideas work. We have a different idea….
What about a phone that just does phone things and when it needs heavier lifting, it doesn’t rape your battery or wallet to get it done? Instead, it seamlessly reaches out to your already powerful gaming rig at home? You install an app on our phone, and that tells your pc at home to install the same app automatically. Now when you tap that icon on the Home Screen, your phone taps into the massive power and connivence of an already working rig at home and streams it to your device!
We are compatible with backbone, Xbox and PlayStation, and of course steam machine controllers.
We here at valve don’t see the merit of spending tons of money marketing a compromise. Sell it once. Do it right. If we do the damn job right, you’ll come back for more. No abusive lock ins.
We call it the steam whistle. Small, portable, cheap, but everyone will notice it.”
Tell me Valve can’t market that.
The market for a setup like that would be pretty small. The average person just has a craptop that isn’t switched on most of the time. Many don’t even bother with that.
Wake on lan. Done
??? Steam link came out in 2018 and is still available.
Moonlight, Sunshine and Xbox have also been a thing for a very long time.
Or are you mocking their failed Steam Machine?
I’m not talking about those. The idea here is the apps still look and behave like local apps. You don’t open an app to open an app. One tap and it just does the thing.
Is that a Cave Johnson voice I hear?
Which they could also use in the promotional materials! Godamnit they have so many options!
Friend, you sounded a bit mad. Like Cave. Enthusiastic. Alright. Let’s eat moon dust!
Okay there are probably better names but I’m drunk and don’t have access to my full vocabulary at the moment.
Side quest: a Serena Special is jagermeister, goldschlager, rumpleminze, and a splash of 151. It’s not a drink to be enjoyed. It’s a drink with a job to do. A drink with a career. A gainfully employed beverage. It pays taxes.
Do with that what you will.
…who invented that
A drag queen in the area named Serena Hunter. The idea is you get drunk fast. Down this and go on stage. It hits you like a train and everyone gets to watch you deal with it.
Add well, whatever floats their goat I guess
No, I actually do like Steam Whistle. It goes well with the rest of Valve’s nomenclature. I figured people would just like to see an old-timey picture of the past.
if steam made a phone it wouldn’t be
I’m probly stating the obvious. I’m usually a little behind the curve
… But this steamframe thing … It’s already a phone, pretty much.
It just needs different apps now.
So … Steam just DID make a phone.
get rid of the vr stuff and add a normal touchscreen instead, make the UI a bit more phone-like, add a cellular connection, get rid of monochrome and add color cameras, make it a little thinner, integrate the battery, add a bunch of phone apps (calculator, texts, calls, browser, notes, email, camera, etc)
computing-wise, it is very similar tho, it has the exact same processor that’s in my phone, just a bit more ram, can be configured to have the same amount of storage
I just looked through the PC Gamer article from 3 days ago. They tore it down a bit. Ya, its pretty VR specific hardware. Looks pretty cool, actually. But it’s two screens built in a curved visor-shaped case. That aint no phone.
I was being silly to point out that it would be very easy for them to jump to just making phones. They are mostly there.