[njovin]

I would guess that users of the Steam machine would mostly be as locked-in to Steam purchases as PS5 users are to PS Store purchases.

I stopped PC gaming about a decade ago and my current daily driver is a Macbook. I periodically play games on my a PS5 or XBOX, but there are a ton of great games on my Steam wishlist.

I feel like I'm the exact target market for this (although I'm not going to buy at this price point at this time). I don't want to bother with Windows and would love a 'console' allowing me to play most Steam games without a lot of hassle.

[Telaneo]

> I would guess that users of the Steam machine would mostly be as locked-in to Steam purchases as PS5 users are to PS Store purchases.

[pirate flag emoji].

Games from sources other than Steam are a bit more fiddly to get going, but it's far from impossible. Like Valve says, it's your computer.

[mwkaufma]

Steam machine is not locked into the steam client. You can install whatever you want.

[sensanaty]

The steam machine is just a regular Linux PC, you can install anything you want on it.

I have the Deck and I mostly use it to emulate Switch & PS2 games.