The VR wave sent the company rushing to grab hold of the market before Oculus could establish itself as a monopoly. Valve seemed to have also forgotten about Steam Machines itself. The Steam Machine, unfortunately, may have been too far ahead of its time. While it’s now more common to see mini PCs with desktop-grade graphics cards, it wasn’t half a decade ago. In fact, some of those later Steam Machines came with Windows, not SteamOS, further dousing any hope of the rise of Linux gaming.
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By then, many have moved on and gone back to Windows PC gaming. The actually powerful Steam Machines eventually came out but a little too late. Not that there were many of those to be played on SteamOS in the first place. Given the console-like size constraints, those boxes didn’t have much power in them, immediately excluding graphics-heavy games. In fact, the first iterations of the Steam Machines themselves made many lose faith in the dream. It didn’t help that the first iteration of the Steam Controller didn’t make it easy to play those games that did work with a controller. And when you’re feet away from your screen sitting on your comfy chair, switching to a keyboard and mouse to play a game is a huge turn-off. There are, of course, games that support both, but not only is it a recent development, it is far from perfect in practice. The problem is, however, that most of the games on Steam were developed with a PC in mind, with keyboard and mouse for input. It transformed Steam into a TV-friendly, console-like interface that you can navigate with a controller. Steam has long had a Big Picture mode, perhaps developed with SteamOS and Steam Machines in mind.
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