Steam Link App and Steam Video App Announced Update: Released for iOS+Apple TV

maybe someday they will add app for music (not this piece of code we have right now)? lazy valve (╯ ° □ °) ╯

Praise Lord Gaben :-D

It's nice, I guess, but I wonder if they can offer streaming of the same quality that what moonlight offers.

Holding my breath for the execution, but I dig the concept. I really liked the idea of steam machines, but understand why they never took off.

Interesting, very nice indeed. Now I'm looking forward to use their video app =)

Does this mean as long I have fast internet I can play any AAA games I have even without a high-tier rig?
no? then it means nothing to me

not to mention Steam Link is kinda pricey here because those customs tax

I wish there was a good app for streaming your own video files, like Plex. The steam link is my only smart TV / HTPC device that has an ethernet port, so it would be great to stream high quality videos through it. I can stream the entire desktop, of course, but it does awful with video of any decent resolution, and generally skips / freezes. If only there were a way to optimize the stream for video, it would be a great resource.

When I saw this post, I thought it might be something like this, but sounds like it's a pretty worthless couple of apps to me. Who would want to play a full PC game on a phone / tablet? It would be awful. Even the games that were originally for mobile will probably be bad after being ported to PC then streamed back to a device. And who watches videos on steam? I mean, I might have seen one or two, but it's not exactly a major video platform... To me, this is another case of valve putting their energy into weird projects that probably won't be used much.

But oh well, I guess it's good that they are doing something, I don't mean to be too negative about it.

"As the biggest digital video game store and distributor, we consider it important to spend our research and development budget on anything but what is tied to being a video game store. You are welcome. P.S.: Get ready for the new and upcoming Steam™ Pizza Ordering app and our new hardware, the Steam™ Coffee Machine!"

Theres no potato option in polls. I disappointed.

Well,. that explains the 5$ dumping price on those steamlinks the last few months.

Still glad i got one though,. so i can use my USB controllers.

The steam controller is too pricey for my tastes.

Phone screens may be small in physical size, but many are, pixel-wise, just as large as a computer screen. Having my phone screen in front of my face at a gaming distance (not unlike a Gameboy/PSP/etc) is roughly equal to sitting three or four feet back from my computer screen. Add Bluetooth speakers and a controller, and it's a surprisingly good gaming experience.

I set up third-party software Moonlight to already do exactly what Valve is announcing here, so that I could stream some non-twitchy video games from my computer to my phone while I was cat-sitting and didn't have access to a decent computer. It wasn't without its issues, but I was also streaming through wireless from my home PC, and for that, I think it actually did really well.

So, it can definitely be useful. But, Valve is treading already-been-done territory. Hopefully it will be as good of quality as Moonlight seems to be, whilst additionally being a bit more accessible.

The video streaming though -- as parvulus mentioned, Plex already solves that fairly well, and even Plex is still missing a few "essential" features years on, that I'm certain Valve will miss the first few goes around. If they're trying to expand beyond games, I guess I get it, but it's not very exciting news from a gamer's perspective.

I'm with Jinkujaku, if it's not a stream-cpu/gpu-intensive-games-you-own-on-a-toaster-for-free announcement, then it's really not very big news.

If this works good, my steamlink will be gone because my fire tv might even handle the streaming better.
Here is hope that I can unplug one more device without loosing the feature

This is big, I know it is for me at least, hope they just work on it and improve it over time, not like their steam app that is never updated.

if they execute it properly (for example letting you use touchscreen to emulate mouse-clicks and mouse movement) it can be gamechanger, right now mobile gaming sucks, is full of shovelware, exploitative practices with very small amopunt of actually good games which are hard to find in the flood of shit. With this Valve could take over a massive chunk of mobile-gaming market. And there are many games which could be operated with mouse only, and theorethically would work on touchscreen as well - turn based strategies and tactical games, point and click adventure games, HOGs, VNs etc.

If the app will work only wint controllers whou, I don't see so much appeal - there is lack of good quality controllers for Android (because there are so many different android points, and using Steam Controller while not having smartphone in your hands but put on desk seems counterintuitive.

"Valve: Apple won’t let the Steam Link app on the iOS"

You can't use your pc while you're streaming game. So, it's not a big deal.

Steam Link App is Now Available for iOS and Apple TV