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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.
Everyone who says it works well for them gets modded down. Weird.
Ahh. Plex
The same company that wouldn't let me view my library without creating a Plex account first.
Also, they release something that they would say would replace WinAMP, which was rightfully completely shitted on since it was everything but.
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Steam link is really cool. It works very well, and it's a nice way to basically remote desktop to your pc and you can watch movies on netflix and stuff like that.
Soooo with the hardware going away... How will we connect usb controllers to a mobile app?
The goal of computer science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Axiom Verge is a pretty good metroidvania style game.
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"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?
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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.
Soooo with the hardware going away... How will we connect usb controllers to a mobile app?
I haven't used the steam link mobile app replacement, however I have used moonlight which works with the NVidia streaming protocol for the same purpose.
Being at the video card level instead of the steam client level, you can stream anything on your pc to it. It's open source and cross platform as well.
The linux and windows versions of the client can stream back any input devices you plug into them.
The Android/iOS clients use a crappy on-screen game pad, but you can turn that off and just pair a game pad directly to the computer you're streaming from, at least in the same home. I never tried using it over the Internet.
The last time I used it was to play fallout 4 on an ipad with a bluetooth controller from the living room, with my pc in the room almost directly above. ymmv
Mine works really well, sad to see it discontinued. I got mine for $22 on sale. So long as you have a wired local network connection, it's rock solid, even with newer games. Kind of iffy for me on wi-fi, and my router is only 10 feet away with clear line of sight. Only issue I run into, are games that don't support a controller. I suppose a steam controller would address a lot of those.
My opinion is to buy one if you've been considering it before they disappear.