Steam Deck could upend the gaming industry… whether Valve has the guts is another story.

The Steam Deck is at a fork in the road and Valve needs to decide. Take the Bubsy path, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever it is you want to believe. Take the Mario 64 path, you stay in Wonderland and Valve shows you how deep the rabbit hole really goes. Read this as an article: https://viewsink.com/steam-deck-64/

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00:00 – Intro
00:36 – The Steam Deck’s unique controls
01:04 – History repeating itself
01:59 – The lowest common denominator means cutting features
03:00 – Designing hardware and software together can change the world
04:34 – Half-Life wouldn’t exist without Mario 64
05:00 – Valve needs to step up to the plate again
05:37 – The industry has stagnated
06:44 – A note on the Steam Controller 2

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