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Valve Quietly Discontinues Steam Link Hardware Production (arstechnica.com)
Valve is quietly discontinuing Steam Link, the in-home streaming box it first launched in late 2015. From a report: A low-key announcement on Valve's Steam Link news page suggests that production of new units has ceased and that Valve is currently selling off the rest of its "almost sold out" inventory in the US, after selling out completely in Europe. Valve says it will continue to offer support for existing Steam Link hardware.
The $50 Steam Link was designed for streaming games from a local gaming PC to an HDTV in the same house, a job it did pretty well provided your networking hardware was up to it. In recent months, though, Valve has shifted its focus away from dedicated streaming hardware and toward mobile apps that can provide the same feature.
The $50 Steam Link was designed for streaming games from a local gaming PC to an HDTV in the same house, a job it did pretty well provided your networking hardware was up to it. In recent months, though, Valve has shifted its focus away from dedicated streaming hardware and toward mobile apps that can provide the same feature.
I haven't had many issues. most of the issues I have had are based on my pc having a issue running the game I'm trying or steam not wanting to go into big screen mode. I also make sure the steam link and my pc are hooked up via network cable and not wifi.
I brought two, both really cheap when on sale. One in the living room and one in the bedroom. It's nice to play from the bed or sofa as I would a console.
seems like dumb editorializing by the author as streaming to a mobile device isn't the same use case, and further Samsung also embeds steam streaming in a number of their televisions.
It would be more cost effective for Valve to simply have an image for Raspberry Pi, known hardware and cheap. While more technically difficult than a dedicated device we are talking about PC gamers who likely have a bit of aptitude
Works really well for me to play console type games on my couch. But the whole Steam Link app seems a bit ridiculous, mobile games are for killing time when out and about, not for playing on my couch (at least not for me...).
The idea of it running on the Samsung TV is cool but not interested in a new TV and if I did it most likely wouldn't be a Samsung. Wake me up when there is a Roku app.
The Link has been in my closet ever since. Have never used it. TV is to close to the computer, so I ran an HDMI cable.
They were running a promotion for these with that game.
Buy the game and get it for $1 plus shipping.
Honestly bought it for the game. Which turned out to be complete shit. A metroidvania style game that had a great look, great animation, and good audio,
Too bad it was a shitty narration game with a boring narrator.
http://progressquest.com/spoltog.php?name=Son+Of+Son+Of+DarkRookie
I got one for free when I bought a Steam controller. I'm not so impressed with the controller, but I use the Link all the time and it works a treat.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Another happy voice - used it for years without issue, connecting to a dual-booted Mac (yep...) running Windows for gaming in the study down through an old HomePlug connection.
Had very few issues - the main one I noticed is that often you'd want to make sure the game had been run at least once, or you could get into odd resolution-switching scenarios when various component installers popped up out of nowhere. But yep - worked fine and paired with a Steam Controller I got a lot of use out of that box.
"Quietly Discontinues"? What were they supposed to do, spend a quarter million on a full page ad in the New York Times announcing it? They announced it through their normal channels. What more were they supposed to do exactly?
Better known as 318230.
I bought the Steam link for two reasons. First, I have multiple people in my home who stream games. Given that requirement and how inexpensive the Steam link was, I would have otherwise needed to spend money on a Nvidia shield, or on HDMI/USB extenders, or on a crappy PC to do Steam in-home streaming to, etc. Second, it has first class support for the Steam controller which we prefer for playing games which don't have proper controller support. We are planning to use ours until they break, and when they do will probably go with one of the other alternatives I just mentioned, depending on what looks to be the best option when that time comes. The steam link is easily replaceable. I will on the other hand, be really sad when I can't find a replacement for my Steam controller. And as an off-topic thought this also reminds me of, I still haven't forgiven Logitech for discontinuing the G400/MX518.
could it be a new revision is coming? 4k support for one
If they don't want to build it, maybe they might chose to open-source the hardware?
Does anyone know: Are there any ASICs in it, or is it stock hardware parts and a firmware load?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Just for fun, clicked on an old link... and it's on super clearance again.
https://store.steampowered.com...
Beat the rush!
A company that started out as a game developer, then put DRM on it, then switched to being a pure DRM distributor.
I'm so glad there are alternatives.
I second this. My experience with Steam Link has been nothing but a nightmare. Maybe it was caused by me running Steam on Linux or by using 2160p as the desktop resolution, but it has always required me getting up from the couch and sorting things out at the desktop. And the problems didn't get solved. Last time I tried it with games that used to work well in the past, it failed horribly. So thumbs down to Valve for selling me a broken product.