[wishfish]

Looks like they'll be trying out the console / small box form factor again.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Valve-Fremont-Upcoming-console...

I'm glad they are. There's probably a sizeable market for a console that runs PC games smoothly at 1080. And could double as a PC. If they get it to the size of an XBox Series S or smaller, I would probably get one.

[slipperydippery]

That's a dream come true... provided they fix multi-accounts and game visibility/accessibility in the Steam UI.

I already have a Steam Deck that I can't let my kids touch, which is stupid. I can't hook something like this up in a shared space of any kind without improved parental controls, including ability to toggle visibility of game library entries, and (ideally, but not strictly necessary) the ability to say "do not show this user's entire library to anyone else on this machine, or on the network, nobody with a different login"

[wishfish]

I had never thought of multiuser (or the lack of) with SteamOS and the Deck. That would be quite the problem with kids.

I wonder if a stopgap solution would be something like Bazzite on the Deck. Then you could have true multiuser while retaining the Deck's ease of use. But I could see other problems.

I'm sure you've probably already tried this or something similar. I just couldn't resist thinking out loud. It's an interesting problem.

[ibaikov]

Wow that's cool, Gabe is an underrated CEO. Thanks for posting this since I do not follow anything gaming anymore.

I hope they'll fix their rumored team wars inside the company.

[laidoffamazon]

I’m honestly skeptical of the utility of the Fremont as the specs currently appear. Seems like not enough horsepower compared to the competitor consoles - the Steam Deck was so good because price to performance to battery life is still hard to beat and only now encroached by the Switch 2, it simply didn’t have a console like competitor.