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What IP does Valve own that could run on a portable device? Do they think people want to play Portal 2 on the go? As if indie developers want to put resources i
by mastrsushi 5y ago
What IP does Valve own that could run on a portable device? Do they think people want to play Portal 2 on the go? As if indie developers want to put resources into porting their content on some niche handheld. Valve has really lost the plot.
They don't have any assurance in hardware. Steam, while successful, isn't the only contender on PC gaming. It's not 2007 anymore, there's Epic Games, Origin, and I'm sure a bunch of other platforms all hosting a small set of popular titles.
They're out of touch, which is sort of ironic given the company was founded by ex-Microsoft employees in the 90's. They went from a Game Development Studio into one of many Game distributors. They're better off sticking with that, or at the most, pushing their platform onto the Switch. Get with the times.
- icegreentea2 5y agoDepends on their model... but a very large selection of PC games already ship with gamepad support (I mean, a huge selection of PC games already run on other consoles for example). I mean, that's really it. If you have gamepad support and can run acceptably on the hardware, then you're good to go - basically no extra dev required.
- mastrsushi 5y agoThe device will run on Linux, depending on the existing title, that might not be a breeze. Not to mention the optimizations developers will have to make to scale their games down to run on this thing.