Switch being as popular as it is, should Valve just buy the SmachZ and develop it themselves to create competition?

Switch being as popular as it is, should Valve just buy the SmachZ and develop it themselves to create competition?

The fuck is that?

For some reason I see this being a thing.

Why would they? They already tried the steam machines and failed
What makes is money is software, not hardware

>Valve
>trying to fight Nintendo in their own territory
NIntendo is the undisputed king of handheld sales.
The only handheld to come close was the PSP.

it wud cost 2 much

Steam machines tried to fill a need that did't exist. A handheld PC is a thing that we don't have. Much like Valve's Controller and Link.

I'm PRETTY sure if the SmachZ releases with the noname company that currently owns it, it'll flop.

>Thousands of lightweight games at launch
>Only "Console" to ever do that

How could it fail.

Nvidia shield exists pham.

The SmachZ is about as weak as the Switch, but it lacks exclusives such as BotW. I considered this thing for a while, bus since all I would use it for is streaming from my desktop, I'm much better off with my Switch than this.

No one wants an underpowered handheld PC
The Switch is popular because of first party Nintendo support

Smach Z is going to come out with an Intel Atom. Their plan of using that AMD SoC is going to fail spectacularly, you're not fitting a 35W CPU into a fanless handheld, no matter how hard you wish.

But my indie games. Fez, Super Meat Boy and the like.

But does it let you play it while outside? What's the point of a portable if you can only play it in your house.

Yeah you can. Geforce Now is also a thing.

but only because microshill didn't try
imagine a handheld for codfags

Ah, didn't know this existed.

Steam machines failed because Valve tried to make them like a PC instead of a console.

There should have been one steam machine.

Only if the architecture was x86-x64, and that's expensive for mobile.

>Ryzen mobile

That looks offensively bad.

Theres little money to be made on hardware, its a race to the bottom.

>There should have been one steam machine.

There should've been 2 or 3 max per year or every 2 years. Entry, mid and high level machines for people that just can't into legos. Too much options are bad.