Valve have quietly discontinued production of Steam Link hardware, the wee black box which plugs into your telly and home network to let you play PC games on the big screen streamed from another room. Their plan is to instead focus on the Steam Link app for mobile doodads and certain models of television. Supplies in Europe are already sold out, and Valve say they’re almost gone in the USA too. I am now kicking myself for not picking one up all those times they were £2 in sales.
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“The supply of physical Steam Link hardware devices is sold out in Europe and almost sold out in the US,” Valve said in yesterday’s announcement. US folks, cross your fingers and hit the store. Download game psx ps1 high compressed.
- To copy Steam game files from another computer to save you having to download the full game, simply do the following; Cancel the download on your machine and delete local files for the game.
- Steam Link is designed to take advantage of the horsepower you already have in your home, streaming from your current gaming computer by mirroring its experience to your device. Video and audio data is sent from your computer to the Steam Link, while your controller input is sent back in real time.
“Moving forward, Valve [intend] to continue supporting the existing Steam Link hardware as well as distribution of the software versions of Steam Link, available for many leading smart phones, tablets and televisions.”
If the game is a steam games, then yes. What you buy from Gamestop is a code that you input into your steam client that activates the game, and allows you to download and play it. Gamestop also sells Steam cards.
But continued hardware support is not continued hardware production. Flip. I should’ve grabbed one. I’ve heard good things about the Steam Link, an easy way to slouch on the couch with controller games. Sure, they added a little latency, were beholden to network conditions, didn’t look as good as playing on your PC directly, but that’s the nature of the technology. There are many games with which I’d accept that trade-off, and I know enough folks who recommended it with those provisos (including our Alec). And yet I kept forgetting to buy one.
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The app works about the same but it’s not as simple as plugging a box into the telly. Mobile-wise it’s only on Android after Apple rejected Steam Link on iOS. And some fancy televisions can run the Steam Link app, but not the one we have at least. Frig. I should’ve got the box.
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