The Steam link of the Valve company seems to be going to start on the right foot in the market, I say this because the per-bookings of the device have already begun and it is known that they are being more than good. Valve's set-top-box will be priced at € 54,99 in Spain and will allow streaming any game on the Steam platform from a PC with Windows 10 or a Mac with OS X 10.10 Yosemite or later.
It is curious that an accessory dedicated simply to games, tFull Mac compatibility. The only explanation I can think of is that Steam (the online platform for renting and selling video games on-demand) is available for both platforms, so launching a device only dedicated to one of them would be somewhat discriminatory.
Anyway, Macs have historically been something of a second-class citizen in the world of PC gaming, but the situation has improved in recent years as well as Apple's hardware, which has undeniably won. a higher market share. This fact was especially noticeable in 2010, when it was launched Steam on Mac and allowed cross-platform play against PC users on Windows.
Regarding the performance of the equipment, Valve strongly recommends that users use a cable-based network system to broadcast the game, since the instability that a wireless network can cause in some cases would make the user experience not as good as it would be desired.
Apart from this Steam link, at Valve they still believe that the future of gaming would go through steam machines, that is, instead of entrusting all the heavy lifting to a dedicated PC, steam machines are really all-in-one PCs designed specifically for games by such reputable manufacturers as Alienware, Asus, Zotac and others, apart they would come with Steam OS as an operating system which is nothing more than a Linux distribution developed by Valve itself.
The Steam link can be reserved only the device or we can also add a controller. Will offer a video output at 1080p @ 60 fps in addition to a speed of 100 Mbit Ethernet, as well as the possibility of creating 802.11ac wireless networks, it also has three USB 2.0 ports, Bluetooth 4.0 and HDMI output. It will be on sale next November 10.