Valve's Steam Machines: How Did They Fail? - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk

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Valve is a wildly successful video game company, but when they tried to make their own video game console line… perhaps it didn't work out how they expected. Is there a silver lining to this failure? Perhaps a life lesson? Let's see…

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0:00 Introduction
0:38 Valve and Steam Early History
3:09 Steam Box Rumors and Big Picture Mode
6:28 Xi3 Corporation
11:08 Valve’s Major Announcements
14:07 Valve Steam Machine Prototype
16:21 Steam Machine Partners and Delays
20:18 Controller, Steam Link, SteamOS 2
23:19 Launch and Failure
26:30 Losing Steam
28:41 Steam Deck
32:09 Something New from Me : )

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