The Steam Machines raises the bar on PC Console gaming.

Because:

- GPUs don't support HDMI CEC by default, nor does the operating system offer it

- Suspend mode on motherboards often suck

- Many game controllers with 2.4Ghz don't properly import USB Wake events. Or the motherboard didn't implement it properly

I see the Steam Machine as an expensive open source concept car that moves the needle for us PC gamers.

Hasn't all this been mostly solved on the Nvidia Shield Pro for ~7 years now?

	▲	4chandaily 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sure, and this also solves those things while having better hardware. I have a shield pro, it hasn't seen a hardware update in a long time. I can game one it, but I need to use the steam link app, not run the games natively. These devices serve similar, but different markets.
	▲	c0n5pir4cy 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not really - it's not a PC.