I kinda wanna hate that but, while pricy, it…it would be good, wouldn’t it? It’s Valve after all. It wouldn’t be astounding. But it would be stable, reliable, accessible…
What’s the point? The entire point of a phone would be compatibility with apps. You can already run something nice and repairable and relatively open if you go over the fact that many features won’t work with it, like some banking apps, NFC payments…
And have a 50% chance to be abandoned/unsupported in 2 years. In the real world they have zero reasons to release a standalone phone, (huge) maybe they could make a tablet for remote play.
mobile gaming is one the biggest segments of the gaming industry based on revenue. depending on how scummy their intentions are, a GabePhone could be a very good business move
They would then have to compete with google’s storefront, which is wild to think about. Unless they pull an EGS and promise a much better revenue split, but even then it’s gonna be ridiculously hard
If its a Linux phone then wouldn’t it just be SteamOS? So they wouldn’t be bothering with trying to enter Android since it’d be Linux, so trying to start a whole new market on Android and convincing people to release Android games to Steam to have games to play wouldn’t be an issue. Maybe frameworks running arm is a test for that.
And I’d imagine the phone would be something like the Sony Xperia Play in terms of design.
I kinda wanna hate that but, while pricy, it…it would be good, wouldn’t it? It’s Valve after all. It wouldn’t be astounding. But it would be stable, reliable, accessible…
All dreams as of now but…
What’s the point? The entire point of a phone would be compatibility with apps. You can already run something nice and repairable and relatively open if you go over the fact that many features won’t work with it, like some banking apps, NFC payments…
And have a 50% chance to be abandoned/unsupported in 2 years. In the real world they have zero reasons to release a standalone phone, (huge) maybe they could make a tablet for remote play.
mobile gaming is one the biggest segments of the gaming industry based on revenue. depending on how scummy their intentions are, a GabePhone could be a very good business move
They would then have to compete with google’s storefront, which is wild to think about. Unless they pull an EGS and promise a much better revenue split, but even then it’s gonna be ridiculously hard
Valve abandoning their 30% greedy cut? Never!
If its a Linux phone then wouldn’t it just be SteamOS? So they wouldn’t be bothering with trying to enter Android since it’d be Linux, so trying to start a whole new market on Android and convincing people to release Android games to Steam to have games to play wouldn’t be an issue. Maybe frameworks running arm is a test for that.
And I’d imagine the phone would be something like the Sony Xperia Play in terms of design.
last year i plugged in my steam link just to see if it still works and it had an update
it gets a “nicer than amd link” award then lol
SteamOS is by far the least stable experience I’ve ever had out of all consoles and handhelds I remember owning. Linux phone would be nice though.