Using Windows 11 for this just seems like an awful idea. They’re using an already shaky OS that Microsoft has a tendency to force updates to that cause problems on desktop PCs - who knows what it’ll do on something like this? Windows is also a resource hog, not what I’d choose for a presumably light-weight machine.

Windows is also not particularly great about sleeping / hibernating and resuming while games are running… that’s really the greatest feature of the Steam Deck, in my opinion - just like a handheld console, you can turn it off at any point and resume your game flawlessly, in almost all cases.

Hopefully they’re at least building a custom front-end for it. If they’re expecting users to navigate using the normal Windows interface (or Windows’ tablet interface, maybe), that’s another huge problem.

I really don’t understand some company decisions. Are they unaware of how monolithic Steam is? Are they overambitious? Are they ignorant to years of news regarding failed gaming platforms?

Xbox was lucky to have broken into the gaming space all those years ago. Epic is still trying to break even. Stadia is dead in the water. I never heard anyone talk about Geforce NOW. Amico… Lol. SouljaBoy is making another gaming console.

Can I be hired as a consultant, just so I can say “no, this is a bad idea” and be almost certainly right?