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I've got a hardware Link - it's still being supported now. It had an update a couple of weeks ago.

alias_neo 5y ago
Yes, but I've had 4K monitors and 4K TV for almost as long as the Link has existed. It very quickly became useless to me the moment I upgraded to a 4K TV. The Steam controller is also an utterly horrible UX so the pair were just a waste of money that sat in a drawer until I stuck them on eBay. A 4K Steam Link should have been an obvious iteration, and a controller with actual buttons and sticks (I half-joke about the controller, I know some love its touch nature, I just hated it, could never keep my thumbs in the right spot).
- DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
  Psst... PS4 and Xbox One rendered 90% of the games at 900p. It's just your pretentious self who thinks it needs 4k.
  - alias_neo 5y ago
    Ive been PC gaming at 4K for several years now. Who mentioned consoles? I'm not sure why you saw my want for 4k visuals in the single player, visual, story based games I prefer to play, as an opportunity to attack me personally. Perhaps read the rules or go back to Reddit or wherever that attitude is welcome.
    - DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
      No you have not. You pretend to have but you didn't.
    - joshschreuder 5y ago
      Didn’t the Steam Link stream video from a full on PC? I’m not sure the 4K encoding and streaming in near-realtime story is particularly good even today, let alone a year or two ago when a 4K Steam Link might have been a possible hardware iteration. Though they could have done 4K UI / other apps like an Android TV device I suppose.
      - alias_neo 5y ago
        That's correct, the Steam Link is a thin client for your gaming PC. From a consumer perspective, people have been rocking 4K TVs and 4K PCs for a few years, and even consoles have been outputting 4K (even if they're rendering less) for a while, so one would hope to have seen some sort of 4K offering. I can see discussions on the Steam forums as far back as 2016 of people streaming 4K in-home from PC to HTPC or similar, so it's certainly _possible_, even 4-5 years ago. I've done some 4K streaming from my gaming PC to laptop hooked up to TV in living room in the past without any (more) issues than I usually have being a purely Linux gamer. According to a topic near the top of the Raspberry Pi / Steam Link, Steam Forum, 4K is _possible_ (no indication of what it looks/feels like) with a Pi 4B these days.
    - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
      With a username like "DeliriumTrigger", I strongly doubt he's talking in good faith.
      - DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
        It's a reference to a song Sohcahtoa82.
- ThatMedicIsASpy 5y ago
  Then don't buy a steam controller? Why release something you can buy. And you can choose the layout (analog stick) or size xbox/ps4,ps5 The controller is amazing and enables non controller games to be played with one. This doesn't stop me from using another controller for emulators.

Yes, but I've had 4K monitors and 4K TV for almost as long as the Link has existed. It very quickly became useless to me the moment I upgraded to a 4K TV. The Steam controller is also an utterly horrible UX so the pair were just a waste of money that sat in a drawer until I stuck them on eBay. A 4K Steam Link should have been an obvious iteration, and a controller with actual buttons and sticks (I half-joke about the controller, I know some love its touch nature, I just hated it, could never keep my thumbs in the right spot).

DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
Psst... PS4 and Xbox One rendered 90% of the games at 900p. It's just your pretentious self who thinks it needs 4k.
- alias_neo 5y ago
  Ive been PC gaming at 4K for several years now. Who mentioned consoles? I'm not sure why you saw my want for 4k visuals in the single player, visual, story based games I prefer to play, as an opportunity to attack me personally. Perhaps read the rules or go back to Reddit or wherever that attitude is welcome.
  - DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
    No you have not. You pretend to have but you didn't.
  - joshschreuder 5y ago
    Didn’t the Steam Link stream video from a full on PC? I’m not sure the 4K encoding and streaming in near-realtime story is particularly good even today, let alone a year or two ago when a 4K Steam Link might have been a possible hardware iteration. Though they could have done 4K UI / other apps like an Android TV device I suppose.
    - alias_neo 5y ago
      That's correct, the Steam Link is a thin client for your gaming PC. From a consumer perspective, people have been rocking 4K TVs and 4K PCs for a few years, and even consoles have been outputting 4K (even if they're rendering less) for a while, so one would hope to have seen some sort of 4K offering. I can see discussions on the Steam forums as far back as 2016 of people streaming 4K in-home from PC to HTPC or similar, so it's certainly _possible_, even 4-5 years ago. I've done some 4K streaming from my gaming PC to laptop hooked up to TV in living room in the past without any (more) issues than I usually have being a purely Linux gamer. According to a topic near the top of the Raspberry Pi / Steam Link, Steam Forum, 4K is _possible_ (no indication of what it looks/feels like) with a Pi 4B these days.
  - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
    With a username like "DeliriumTrigger", I strongly doubt he's talking in good faith.
    - DeliriumTrigger 5y ago
      It's a reference to a song Sohcahtoa82.
ThatMedicIsASpy 5y ago
Then don't buy a steam controller? Why release something you can buy. And you can choose the layout (analog stick) or size xbox/ps4,ps5 The controller is amazing and enables non controller games to be played with one. This doesn't stop me from using another controller for emulators.