Now that Steam Deck has made good on the failed promise of Steam Machines, it looks like Valve is paving the way for third-party devices "powered by SteamOS"
The Steam Machine dream may yet live

The dream of the Steam Machine might not be dead after all. Now that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Steam Deck is a bonafide hit, it looks like Valve is paving the way for devices from third-party hardware manufacturers to make their own SteamOS devices. Valve has quietly just pushed some new brand and logo gu🎶idelines for SteamOS devices.
Valve's public has just been updated (as noted th🤪rough and shared by ), linking to a new telling the companies Valve work💟s with how they're allowed to use Steam logos on their products.
The most notable thing in𓂃 the new document is a badge indicating devices that are "powered by SteamOS." "The Powered by SteamOS logo ind✅icates that a hardware device will run the SteamOS and boot into SteamOS upon powering on the device," Valve explains.
Valve has made clear for some time that it intends to offer SteamOS 3.0, the version of the operating system that currently powers Steam Deck, to other device manufacturers and the public at large. In 2023, Valve's Lawrence Yang told our friends at that a wider release of SteamOS was "very high" on the company's to-do list, and would likely be made available first to the makers of handheld devices similar to Steam Deck. More recently, Yang told that support for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Asus ROG Ally in particular was in the works.
This would be Valve's second attempt at getting SteamOS spread across a bunch of third-party devices, as we're coming up on the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Steam Machines. Those devices failed to offer a c💃ompelling reason to ditch the traditional PC, though, and support dried up within a couple of years. But now that Steam Deck has prove🍷n just how good a SteamOS-powered machine could be, it might just be time for the Steam Machine idea to live again.
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