Op Ed [Jun 08, 2015, 09:34 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Don't buy a Steam Machine - The Verge.
The official Steam Machines run SteamOS, which is basically Linux with Steam’s Big Picture Mode. Even though Valve is working to bring more games to Linux, most popular titles aren’t available for it yet, and there’s really no reliable way to predict which games will be supported in the future. Of the top 10 games you can buy on Steam right now, only one, the Fallout Classic Collection, works on SteamOS. There’s no Grand Theft Auto 5, or Skyrim, or DayZ. Hell, you can’t even play games that are compatible with Linux but aren’t on Steam, which includes Blizzard’s popular catalog. If you care about playing anything relatively new and popular, the Xbox One, PS4, Wii, and Windows-based PCs are all clearly superior options. And games aren’t the only compatibility problem. If Valve and HTC’s virtual reality headset is anything like the Oculus Rift, it’ll need powerful hardware, and it’s possible lower-end Steam Machines won’t support it.
When was the last time a game was released for your PS2 or N64? My imagination is not limited to the last generation of consoles that were just replaced in the past year. All current and past console libraries have a shelf life of that immediate console generation, no amount of semantic bullshit will change that. It has only gotten worse this generation with the complete cutoff of backward compatibility.
Games so old that they need to be re-released likely have to be re-purchased INTO your Steam account anyway so again... not really relevant.
But just to be clear... you are not arguing with the overall point i'm making at all... you are just semantically picking apart the posts for no reason. I'm pretty sure there's a word for that.
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