this Steam Machine hadn’t been announced back then? Not even the steam deck, which has been a massive success.

We know they've been kicking the idea around since the first line up and I believe pretty decent leaks saying they were working on it were out around 2019.

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amlib a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Of course it was, they are talking about the 2012~2015 (not sure about the exact date) steam machine that was released and failed. It took a long time for enough pieces to fall into place that would lead to the success of the steam deck and now the, too soon to call a success, launch of the new steam machine (2026).

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seba_dos1 a day ago | parent [-]

The original Steam Machines were a line of pre-made PCs with SteamOS from various vendors. Valve made a reference machine, but it was never widely available. The device released today is their first product that's actually called "Steam Machine".

	▲	Gigachad a day ago \| parent [-]
		Also this was back before Proton. You could only play games that natively supported linux, which was hardly any back then.

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hilariously a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah there was the steam link, but that was also way before 2019, so not sure what they could be referring to.