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Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'" (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

How would that even work if they did make excusives since it's just a pc? Run a hardware check and stop the game from launching if it doesn't detect steam machine hardware?

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  • [+] -10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    There were some games that can be run on Steam Deck, but will not run on other Linux systems, I think they might be able to do similar stuff for the Machine.

    IMO I think it is just limited the game's visibility, but ultimately it's up to the game devs. (Like tech support or "fairness" reasons)

    EDIT: This list show games that only run on Steam Deck or SteamOS, but not other Linux systems https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/status/steamos/

    It were possible but it's more on the developer side at that moment.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What games?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think he might be referring to infinity nikki, or at least that's what i thought of when making my original comment. Idk if it ever got bypassed though.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's simply not true. Steam deck is nothing special hardware wise. You can use proton on any Linux distro to run the same games that will run on steam os. Valve is not in the proprietary console market.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It was true but it wasn't done by Valve and not in hardware. Just some developers deciding to explicitly not support Linux, but wanting to support Steam Deck, so they added some naive checks for that. Unfortunately I don't remember the specific titles as I wasn't interested in any of them.

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