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Have two of these, and a few Steam controllers, and god damn they are one of the best devices I own. My wife and I play games from the couch or bed all the time
by regnerba 8y ago
Have two of these, and a few Steam controllers, and god damn they are one of the best devices I own. My wife and I play games from the couch or bed all the time together.
Both of ours are hard wired, not wireless, and never had a problem with the streaming. Actually thats not true. After a windows update of some kind, possibly directx, all Unity based games failed to launch for about a week. Then back to normal.
The Steam controllers are not as awesome in my opinion, much preferred my Xbox controllers.
These things are awesome for when friends are over. Wish there was more games, but there are still a solid number of games that are great for the couch. Jackbox party packs, Tricky Towers, Tower Fall, Sonic All Stars Racing, Party Panic, Hell Divers, Overcooked, and the list goes on. Sooooo many good games and I got to keep them all in my Steam library without having to buy another console and rebuy games.
- babuskov 8y ago> Wish there was more games Some suggestions in case you missed them: Castle Crashers, Son of a Witch, Duck Game, Rayman Legends.
- emsy 8y agoSuggestion thread then: Overcooked, Keep talking and nobody explodes, Broforce, Call of Duty Black Ops 3 (Zombie mode), Enter the gungeon, Nuclear Throne
- royjacobs 8y agoCan +1 the recommendation for Broforce. I never expected this game to be so entertaining, but I keep coming back to it.
- omnimus 8y agoOvercooked is best party game ever.
- emsy 8y agoIf you don't intend to stay friends afterwards, yes ;)
- ionised 8y agoGangbeasts. It's probably the best party game I've played. It plays better with 4 or more people though.
- regnerba 8y agoRayman was awesome! We spent a great number of hours in that. Also already played Castle Crashers but I will look into those other two. Thank you.
- ctack 8y agoHow do they work? I know what Steam is, but I can't fathom what this gadget actually does and what value it adds.
- cheald 8y agoIt's almost like a Chromecast for your games. It connects to your main computer on your network and can manage Steam remotely. Starting a game streams the audio and video from the game from your gaming computer to your TV, and returns input back to it, effectively letting any TV in your house become a gaming console if you already have a games-capable machine. Their Steam Link app does similar, except to your phone rather than to a TV.
- saiya-jin 8y agoSounds like connecting TV to PC, which is good if your PC is far from TV, but in my case I use usual HDMI cable with 0 network lag. Plus it can be used for anything that PC does (I don't have any Steam/Valve product on PC)
- Already__Taken 8y agoThen you add kodi to steam and it's a complete media platform you also play games from
- goldenkey 8y agoChromecast and all the other IPV4/6 based wireless HDMI are really intensive and saturate your LAN. I have a wireless HDMI that uses directional infrared and it's quite performant with no resource contention issues.
- washadjeffmad 8y agoThat sounds like a really neat device. In lieu of that, I segregate traffic with VLANs by SSID at home, which helps prevent mDNS spikes and other inconveniences from disrupting the rest of the network. It's pretty common for people to buy into IoT without preparing their networks, and there's no networking hardware that I know of that's a seamless experience for managing what having an IoT integrated home brings. I guess Ubiquiti's Unifi line is pretty close, but it's not what I'd imagine a plugnplay "Google Hub" automated router/switch with SDN manageable from Assistant. Although, I haven't used Google WiFi, so I don't know if it already works like that.