Valve's SteamOS Plans Supporting Competitors and Future Developments

TapTechNews August 14th news, Valve (V社) once envisioned that every PC manufacturer could have its own SteamMachine, which is a PC game console running SteamOS (based on Linux). This dream took ten years to evolve into the current SteamDeck handheld console, but V社's original dream has not been shattered.

V社 designer Lawrence Yang confirmed to foreign media TheVerge that the company has always planned to allow other companies to use SteamOS, which means explicitly supporting competing Asus ROG Ally handheld devices.

TapTechNews noticed that on August 8th, an interesting item appeared in the SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta update note: Added support for extra ROG Ally keys, meaning that V社 has already been adapting the system for the ROG Ally handheld console.

Yang responded in the report: The note about ROG Ally keys is related to the support for third-party devices on SteamOS. The team is continuing to work on adding support for other handheld consoles on SteamOS.

In terms of the progress of adaptation, Yang said that V社 is steadily advancing, but not ready for out-of-the-box use yet.

In addition, V社 plans to release a general version of SteamOS 3. In theory, users can also install this system on non-handheld devices. Yang said that the company has also made similar progress in this regard, but is not ready yet.