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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Now that the Steam Deck and linux gaming has found some success I really hope Valve or someone else revisits the home console market with a similar approach.

    You couldn’t really build a PC for the same price as a PS5 with the same performance unless you’re buying used parts in most places but that’s not because Sony is selling consoles at a loss right now like the olden days. A large system integrator like Valve (or xbox if they want to change their formula) could offer similar perf/price without all the downsides of these locked down consoles.











  • The difference is using a 2nd computing device as a controller it seems, ie using your phone to cast a video to chromecast.

    I actually can’t believe touchstream won this initial case though because they are definitely a patent troll. The don’t make any products themselves they just got an overly broad patent of technology that seemingly already existed (and was pretty obvious) and they go around trying to get companies to pay them licensing fees. And what I read of their patent doesn’t even seem like it covers chromecast, they specify a client device -> separate server -> display device not a direct connection to a display device.