Nah, steam PCs will probably start to be best bang for buck based on economies of scale. This will push more general steam library adoption and game devs will target specific steam machine benchmarks.
Steam machines become the new console market, they enshittify with hardware DRM or similar, prices creep up and the entertainment market will move somewhere else.
I doubt powerful consumer hardware will ever rise again. Consumers who only want the entertainment don’t want the hassle and corporations are always happy to crowd us out of the market so they can rent us back the compute.
Nah, steam PCs will probably start to be best bang for buck based on economies of scale. This will push more general steam library adoption and game devs will target specific steam machine benchmarks.
Steam machines become the new console market, they enshittify with hardware DRM or similar, prices creep up and the entertainment market will move somewhere else.
I doubt powerful consumer hardware will ever rise again. Consumers who only want the entertainment don’t want the hassle and corporations are always happy to crowd us out of the market so they can rent us back the compute.