![]() ![]() Only a hardwired ethernet connection can provide the network bandwidth for this thing to work even passably well. ![]() The HDMI goes to the television and the ethernet goes to your home network in theory the Link has wi-fi capability but in practice this is so overwhelmingly shit that you’ll never use it. This is a small box about the size of a wallet with two USB ports, an HDMI port and an ethernet port. The problem is the that the tech stack sitting behind the Steam Link is incredibly immature and really not up to providing the painless, seamless experience that I’ve come to expect from living room videogaming. And to be fair to it, taken in isolation as a thing that sits behind your television and streams in-game video from your PC, I wouldn’t call the Steam Link all that bad. Certainly I had more faith in the Steam Link than I did the Steam Controller, which is a horrible plasticky piece of kit that remains in its box, unused, over four months later 2. ![]() Every single preview of the Steam Link streaming technology I read had been overwhelmingly positive I’m usually quite suspicious since I’ve seen countless high-tech boondoggles that test perfectly in a controlled environment implode when introduced to the messy and imprecise real world, but for some reason I thought Valve could really nail this thing. I must admit I bought into the hype a little bit here. Perfect, I thought, I’ll pick those up and instead of being restricted to the six games I’ve bought for the Xbox I can play any one of the six hundred games in my Steam account on my nice shiny new television. Fortunately it was around about this time that Valve announced a release date for their much-vaunted Steam Link and Steam Controller. This console generation being slightly awful, however (and no I don’t think I bought into the wrong ecosystem as far as I’m concerned the pickings are even slimmer on the PS4) I soon ran out of interesting-looking games to play and started to cast around for other ways I could use these expensive technological wonders. A few months back I moved into a new flat and, somewhat buoyed by the novelty of having free space of my own to play with for the first time, immediately bought an XBox One 1 and a gigantic television to play it on. ![]()
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