what if steam made a handheld

[ps5 sucks]

they're plenty of RPGS on stream but i can only play them where it's downloaded. I would like to play some steam RPGS on the road than using my phone or switch.

[Zekiran]

Thing is:

You already have a switch AND a phone.

Why would they ever compete with that?

[ps5 sucks]

because i really don't want to dish out extra money to games i already have on PC..

Rpgs are fantastic on the road.

[Darren]

Hypothetically if you didn't mind lag (which would be worse) and were able to setup a VPN you could use the Steam Link App and Remote Play on your phone to run the game on your machine at home and stream over your VPN to your phone.

[PXL]

I want to play my Steam games (while away from home) on a tablet.

[PXL]

Darren eredeti hozzászólása:

Hypothetically if you didn't mind lag (which would be worse) and were able to setup a VPN you could use the Steam Link App and Remote Play on your phone to run the game on your machine at home and stream over your VPN to your phone.

It’s an idea. But not a permanent user-friendly feature.

[Darren]

leveller eredeti hozzászólása:

I want to play my Steam games (while away from home) on a tablet.

Most tablets have a different architecture than Steam games are built for if you got an intel x86 tablet running a version of Windows/Linux/Mac it'd be able to run your Steam games just out of the box.

Remote-play is the closest you'll get (because it's just streaming and rendering on the tablet) in the immediate future as I said above you can theoretically set this up (with more latency) via your mobile internet and a VPN to your home network.

[Darren]

https://www.dicksmith.com.au/da/buy/kogan-atlas-10-1-2-1-d400-touchscreen-notebook/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_listing_ads&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwO6Jp56w5wIV1aqWCh283Aw6EAQYAiABEgL5O_D_BwE

That one for example (although you'd have to switch the OS for normal Home or Pro since the S mode only allows Windows Store apps) would be able to play older steam games because it's the right architecture CPU running Windows 10.

[AustrAlien2010]

Look here too. Maybe you like:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/?snr=1_5_9__12

I'm sure your idea is very profitable, and you may see something like that at some point. Who can tell. But I would rather not play a game on a handheld. Too small. Too few buttons. Too little potential. You can't really work with them either, or run any sort of productive programs on them. The user interface is just too limited in appliance.

People could develop muscle injuries, or headaches, just by using them for a long time, it's hardly ideal to start working on such a device, from a user interface perspective. A PC is much better? Right? More comfortable, and it allows you to multi-task.

[Brujeira]

Valve have already tried designing gaming machines. They were crap. I can’t see them trying again, especially when it comes to tablets.

[Gwarsbane]

You want a handheld PC to play steam games... here ya go, Alienware UFO
https://www.google.ca/search?q=alienware+ufo

Expect it to be under powered
Expect it to be over priced

Why under powered and over priced? Because you can't even stick enough of a PC into a regular cheap laptop to run games decently for long.

There are a few other problems with a portable PC gaming device like this... PC games are not designed to run on such a small screen with low power. Windows OS which would be required for most of the games is not designed for such a small under powered system.

Something that size is not going to be able to hold many games unless you go crazy expensive for the storage (have you priced out 1 and 2 TB M.2 cards recently?). I just got a couple of games that are 100+ gigs each. On something like this, after formatting you're gonna be lucky to get 2 maybe 3 games. More then likely you're gonna have only around 256 to 512 megs before OS and formatting.

Game companies are not going to make a special version of the game just to possibly fit on and run on this hardware. You're going to have to pay for those games individually even if you already own the game on Steam because redesigning a game for specific hardware and software is expensive after the games were already made.

As mentioned by others, Valve already tried their hand at "Steam Machine". Basically they asked a company to build them and they would put their name on it. The machines were under powered and over priced. You could literally build a new PC on your own that was more powerful and cheaper then most of the Steam Machines that showed up.

Also this has been discussed before, it could have been found with a search.

[PXL]

https://www.bit-tech.net/news/alienware-shows-off-concept-ufo-a-handheld-pc-gaming-device/1/

[eram]

Any day now.. any day.. :D
https://gameplaying.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Feb_17_17_53_16.jpg

[Hanomaly]

you can also use any laptop or tablet that runs Windows as a “handheld” or travel steam game machine.

Like i use my Surface to play a lot of Steam games while i travel. Obviously i don’t play my most graphically demanding games on it, but a Surface can play a lot of Steam games, and is light weight!

i know it’s not a true “handheld” but i think it is still pretty nice.

[wuddih]

was already done.
due to Valves Steam Machine licensing program, manufacturers got interested into building small form factor computers.

even when "Steam Machine" is no longer there, what Valve has achieved with this is PC manufacturers starting to think outside of the box, literally.

one result:
https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Console-GPD-Touchscreen-Graphics/dp/B07FX8M1DZ/
exists since years, this is already the second iteration of the windows version.

[Zekiran]

Darren eredeti hozzászólása:

Hypothetically if you didn't mind lag (which would be worse) and were able to setup a VPN you could use the Steam Link App and Remote Play on your phone to run the game on your machine at home and stream over your VPN to your phone.

VPNs are often not allowed via steam, I'd suggest if you do anything involving one, that you make *absolutely sure* that you're allowed to do so, without risking a ban of some kind.