Plenty games, including all decent console ports, supported controllers at this point. On the rare times when I wanted to play a PC game on my big TV in the shared living room, I was happy to pick up and plonk my laptop on the TV stand, plug in an HDMI cable and grab wired XBOX controller. At this time, I was renting a room in a flat near Wimbledon. Valve’s dream of PC Gaming in the living room for me was over before it started. It was an amusing distraction, like enabling Big Head mode in Goldeneye, enabled only when I misclicked the minimize button. Like chancing upon a hipster, breakfast cereal pop-up bar, I was confused, so I left and dismissed the venture entirely. I clicked Big Picture and up opening a clunky box-ridden mess of menus that were unintuitive and dire to navigate on keyboard and mouse. “Oh boy, howdy, this is gonna be hella coolio,” I said in the parlance common of the time. After another two-hour 2Fort stalemate, I noticed Steam proudly sporting a fetching ‘Big Picture’ button, so much so it sat on the top bar alongside the mighty god buttons (Minimise, Maximise and Close window). In 2012, Valve’s laid the foundation for their goal of uniting the PC gaming and console gaming societies with the addition of Big Picture mode to Steam.īack then I was rocking a wee laptop just capable of running Team Fortress 2 on the lowest settings. THIS IS AN EX-PRODUCT!Įxcept here, in my living room, the dream of PC gaming on the couch lives on. It’s a stiff, bereft of life, it rests in peace. The Steam Controller is no more, it’s ceased to be, expired and gone to meet its maker. Yesterday, the final boxes of Steam Controllers were sold and the product is officially discontinued. The less said about UK politics, the better. And that’s just Valve calling it quits on their dream of bringing PC gaming to the living room. It’s an odd feeling to look out your living room window and see a world that doesn’t match your own: A society divided into two fear of the unknown the death of nuanced views industry greats failing despite innovation. A Dream, Because No-One Else Believed In It.
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