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Valve may be working on a direct competitor to the Nvidia Shield (www.xda-developers.com)

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Valve may be developing a "Steam Box" powered by SteamOS

The new kernel designed for "AMD Lilac" hints at possible new hardware

The device seems more of a competitor for Nvidia Shield than an upcoming Steam Deck 2.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

I'd love a shield replacement (even though it's pretty much fine), but how are you going to get streaming to work properly? Are you going to support all the DRM stuff platforms require to stream reasonable quality video in Linux?