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Nvidia should join with Valve and make it a high-end gaming console. It would be nice dual use system.
by nabla9 2y ago
Nvidia should join with Valve and make it a high-end gaming console.
It would be nice dual use system.
- protimewaster 2y agoI would support this if it meant that Nvidia would improve their Linux drivers. As it stands, though, a device running SteamOS on Nvidia hardware sounds painful.
- hedora 2y agoIt'll take a long time for them to rebuild their reputation on that front. I threw away a pile of perfectly serviceable NVIDIA desktop boards a while back because they were "supported", but they couldn't do stuff like run modern compositors or even XScreenSaver. These were high-end boards that worked fine in Linux when I bought them (as long as you were willing to periodically patch + recompile the kernel from a text console). Anyway, once they have feature parity with Windows + current CUDA with a 100% open source stack going back a decade, then I'll consider them again. Until then, I'll happily buy an AMD that's 90% as fast for the same price.
- tedivm 2y agoThere are already a ton of high-end gaming consoles you can buy today with nvidia chips. In fact, this is exactly what I did for my own AI machine (dual 3090s).
- hedora 2y agoA console would be a device like an XBox, PS5 or Switch. Of those, only the Switch (current + next gen) are NVIDIA devices. The Steam Deck and the other current generation consoles are all AMD.
- ekianjo 2y agoit would be nice if Valve's Steam Big Picture mode actually worked with Nvidia. It's still not the case.
- nickpsecurity 2y agoTheir last console probably inspired them to not try again for a while.
- gpderetta 2y agoThe steam deck? I would say it was fairly successful.
- nickpsecurity 2y agoI got my products mixed up in my head. I retract that. Thanks.