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Bigger Game Catalogue Will Guarantee the New Steam Machine Succeeds Where Its Predecessors Failed, Valve Believes

A black Steam Machine is displayed with visible on-image text 'Your games on the big screen.'

The work done on Proton and SteamOS will make the new Steam Machine succeed where its predecessors failed, Valve engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup Griffais. Speaking with Rock Paper Shotgun, Yazan Aldehayyat stated that one of the reasons the original Steam Machines failed was the lack of software, as very few games were compatible with SteamOS (based on Linux), and only a few games could run well using other compatibility tools like Wine. “We learned from the first Steam Machines that we needed to make our developers’ lives a lot easier,” Aldehayyat said. “So now we have Proton, right? Which […]

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