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Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam (www.notebookcheck.net)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Agent_Karyo to c/games

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (6 children)

SteamDeck, emulate everything.*

Proton technically isn't emulation, but it's pretty crazy that the device basically doesn't have anything natively built for it, everything is translated emulated. It took that much effort to break Microsoft's PC gaming monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

translation is kind of native though. It is almost like porting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.

[–] FreeLikeGNU 3 points 5 months ago

Sadly that's mostly true, but that may have more to do with devs lack of experience with Linux in general. Often they would have to outsource the port to Aspyr or another team.

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