Following the surprise announcement of Valve’s revamped Steam Machine mini-PC, a reader predicts it will win in a console war with the PlayStation 6.

I guess we were all a bit shocked by the Steam Machine annoucement this week. There were rumours of a new VR headset, but Steam Machine? That flop idea from 10 years ago, that it sounds like Xbox is going to try and copy for the next generation? It sounds crazy at first but the more I think about it, the more it seems to me like it could really work this time.

10 years is a long time and so much has changed in just the last three, so I really don’t think it’s relevant that the idea didn’t work back then.

The biggest difference is that, ignoring Nintendo, console exclusives barely exist anymore and so the only reason to get a console, rathe

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