[DRW_]

>• Valve is almost as infamous as Google for abandoning their hardware and projects.

In what way?

The Steam Machines didn't really take off, but they didn't sell any hardware for that - and they kept supporting the whole software side of things and progressing SteamOS, Proton, etc ever since - making the Steam Deck itself possible.

Steam controller and Steam link are still alive, get support and new functionality beyond the discontinuation of the hardware. The stuff they spawned, SteamInput and the Steam Link app, all still there and not abandoned.

Their VR stuff still gets updates frequently - the Vive, the Index, all still supported.

If anything, Valve are a good example of how to support your stuff long term even when the hardware hasn't sold as well as you'd like. This is really a bizarre view to me and the complete opposite of my experience as someone who owns at least something from every 'category' of hardware product Valve released. None of them feel abandoned whatsoever.

[foverzar]

+1 to this.

They've discontinued Steam Controller quite a long time ago, but it is perfectly supported with the new Deck/BigPicture UI.