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Steam on ChromeOS: Not a Rumor Anymore (boilingsteam.com)
10 points by ekianjo on June 19, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Interesting maneuver but what's the motivation for Valve? They have SteamOS as their Linux distribution already. ChromeOS devices aren't known for their gaming prowess among consumers plus one would think that Google will eventually be interested in profiting from their relationship, eating into Valve's revenue. So why?


> Interesting maneuver but what's the motivation for Valve?

Reaching the ChromeOS using market.

> ChromeOS devices aren't known for their gaming prowess among consumers

Selling ChromeOS to gamers isn’t Valve’s interest, selling games to the people on ChromeOS is.

> plus one would think that Google will eventually be interested in profiting from their relationship, eating into Valve's revenue.

Initially, Google profits from Valve’s success by growing the market for ChromeOS, by changing consumer perception about it as a gaming platform. Longer term, maybe it might go the way you suggest, but that's a negotiation for later.


Big question, lets not forget that WebGL 2.0 requires a subset of OpenGL ES 3.0, which was released around 2011.

So most OEMs will never bother to put anything that most gamers will bother with, not even Vulkan class GPUs


Maybe get an external USB drive, given the usual mini-SSD harddrives that Chromebooks ship with.




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