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Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
Video game and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to run a large number of games on the Steam PC platform via Linux—and it could launch, supply chain willing, by year's end.
Multiple sources familiar with the matter have confirmed that the hardware has been in development for some time, and this week, Valve itself pointed to the device by slipping new hardware-related code into the latest version of Steam, the company's popular PC gaming storefront and ecosystem.
[...] In recent years, the "Switch-like PC" category has exploded. In early 2020, Alienware revealed its first Switch-like gaming PC, but the "concept" device has not yet turned into a commercial product. If you want to buy a similar device today, you're largely looking at products from Chinese OEMs like GPD, One-Netbook, and Aya, who have slapped ultramobile PC processors and parts into a Switch-like chassis.
Rumors point to an AMD "Van Gogh" APU (Zen 2 quad-core with RDNA 2 graphics and support for LPDDR5 RAM), 7/8-inch screen, at a $400 price point for a Q4 2021 release.
Also at Wccftech.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Sunday May 30 2021, @02:54AM
I don't think there are any other controllers similar to the "Wiimotes", aside from their later iterations. The Playstation Move controllers are the only other thing I can think of that were even remotely comparable.
Well, at least not until you start getting into modern VR controllers. The cool thing with the Wii was that it was sort of VR-light. You didn't get the headset, but you did get the "feel" of controlling your avatar by moving like you were really in the game.
There were games that used more traditional "classic" or "pro" controllers, but the vast majority of memorable Wii games leveraged the motion controls in a way that really set them apart from games on any other platform.