Valve's uncertainty over the Steam Machine price might have delayed the announcement of Half-Life 3, according to a new leak.

A new leak claims that a Half-Life 3 announcement might have been delayed due to the Steam Machine price. According to the insider, Valve is still trying to determine the console’s cost due to skyrocketing hardware component prices, such as RAM.

  • Broken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    632·
    1 day ago

    Oh yeah, hardware prices are what’s preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.

    • Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      24 hours ago

      I’m guessing they want to bundle it with the machine and have it as a sort of “demo” game.

            • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 hours ago

              No, Steam didn’t have their own hardware back then afaik, but it introduced Portal alongside new installments of two extremely popular existing franchises. That’s why I said it was similar instead of the same thing.

              • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                4 hours ago

                Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”

                • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  3 hours ago

                  man… I really wish valve would go back and make new Meet The videos… or just TF2 videos in general. The first ones, like Heavy, got so ripped off compared to later ones like the Pyros