Quoting: WildCoder1000 Verified games for launch! Because they can, it would be a record for any hardware launch that would be very hard to match for quite a while, and it would make a really nice headlines.

When Gabe Newell was first talking about Steam-on-Linux he said that he wanted "all 2,500 games" (the size of the Steam catalogue at the time) to run on Linux. We've got a lot more than that now running natively because the size of the catalogue has ballooned, but a launch lineup of 2,500 Verified games would be a nice watermark.

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Quoting: Alm888First thought crossing my mind upon seeing the news: "Let me guess, 'Linux version is not yet available on GOG right now'?"

Nope, not this time.

This one had a Linux version before on GOG, because GOG packaged it themselves when they used to support Linux.

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It's not a dig at GOL because I know those are the official names, but it really annoys me that some games have their names in allcaps and splattered with trademark symbols. So janky.

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Quoting: mtFirst game I'll be trying, just for the sake of it, Minecraft.
Thanks to the LambdaControls mod, you can play Minecraft Java with a Controller, and it's often better than playing Minecraft Bedrock with a Controller, simply because the mod is so modular and configurable.

Tho if there will ever be a mod that supports Gyro controls for Minecraft, that would be the non plus ultra.

You don't need to mod Minecraft if you're launching it through Steam. Steam gets you controller support automatically.

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Quoting: TrainDocA brief aside, when did 16:9 stop being a desirable screen ratio?

It was never a desirable ratio for computer displays. It was a good enough compromise between 4:3 and cinema ratios for TVs. Widescreen monitors were 16:10, but 16:9 panels got cheaper to make because of the massive economies of scale of TV panel production, which got monitor manufacturers more profit, so they started putting out 16:9 monitors even though 16:9 is too short for normal computer use.

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Quoting: BeamboomI find some of those whitelisted as downright *weird* that they've spent time on testing. Looks so ridiculously random.

They've got unpublished test results. The initial batches of published test results were just to test the store interface, with limited numbers in case it didn't work. I expect they wanted a range of ways that the testing failed so that they tested each part of the interface.

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Quoting: EikeSeems they're going for it!

Well they got Steam sales for these ones from me even though I'd bought the GOG versions before, so they'll get at least one more Steam sale of the others that they do as well.

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Fingers crossed they're going to do all of them. Resonance has a Linux version on GOG, I think, but not on Steam because GOG packaged it themselves back in the day.

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Quoting: propertyWe're currently at about 0.3M monthly active gamers there and are hopefully bound to be in the millions within the next two years.

1.3M monthly active. The 0.3M is how many have been on at the same time.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeMy other worry is all the people that will just buy this and install Windows on it... seems to defeat the purpose of the Deck for me; as who wants to deal with another Windows install...

I think very few people will, and the ones that do will have a miserable time; the reviews of other handheld devices that come with Windows have been universal in saying that Windows is terrible for a device like this. But for the ones that do, and get utility out of it, good luck to them; it's their device to do as they wish.

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