The biggest threat to Windows is Steam

[only777]

JohnVG said:

only777 said:

You'll buy Switch 2 for those sweet Nintendo games, PS5 Pro for a premium optimised console experience and a Steam Machine because, well Steam is great!  There will be no room left in the market for the Xbox consoles.

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"PS5 Pro for a premium optimised console experience"

LOL, no.

People will buy PCs with Windows, not with Steam OS, cause PCs are flexible to do everything you need, not only to play. And people do more things in PCs than just playing games (but now, they easily can use them as consoles, if they want).

And a steamdeck (and similar devices) maybe do not need a Windows, true, but they are not PCs, are portable consoles using PC hardware... to play PC games in portable mode. Seems the same? it is not. You can't seriously do anything else there, so... no need to use Windows if Steam OS has some good layers to run well Windows games and reduces the requirements or the tasks in the background when you play.

It's a product for a very specific type of machines (It's basically a "dedicated Linux distro", as they have existed for many many years). Do not expect people changing Windows for a Linux in its daily PC. They won't. And I used to be a Linux user many years (always next to a partition for Windows, because you eventually will need Windows for some program or whatever.

You either did not read my post, or did not understand it.

It's a predidiction thread, something I think will happen in the future. 

Also as someone with kids, trust me plenty of PC's are being bought with ONLY gaming in mind.

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But why do you not think PS5 Pro is not a premium optimised console experience?  I don't think any sane person would disagree with that.