Now that Steam Deck has made good on the failed promise of Steam Machines, it looks like Valve is paving the way for third-party devices "powered by SteamOS"
The Steam Machine dream may yet live
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The dream of the Steam Machine might not be dead after all. Now that theSteam Deckis a bonafide hit, it looks likeValveis paving the way for devices from third-party hardware manufacturers to make their own SteamOS devices. Valve has quietly just pushed some new brand and logo guidelines for SteamOS devices.
Valve has made clear for some time that it intends to offer SteamOS 3.0, the version of the operating system that currently powers Steam Deck, to other device manufacturers and the public at large. In 2023, Valve’s Lawrence Yang told our friends atPC Gamerthat a wider release of SteamOS was “very high” on the company’s to-do list, and would likely be made available first to the makers of handheld devices similar to Steam Deck. More recently, Yang toldThe Vergethat support for theAsus ROG Allyin particular was in the …
