<story><title>Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtallis</author><text>&amp;gt; In general, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&amp;#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam,&lt;p&gt;In case you haven&amp;#x27;t heard of it, Valve sells the Steam Deck: a handheld gaming console with Steam as its primary UI. Under the hood, it&amp;#x27;s a low-power AMD x86 system running Linux (specifically, Valve&amp;#x27;s SteamOS distro). So having Dolphin on Steam would be the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Steam Deck users, just like having Dolphin available on the Google Play Store is the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Android users even though side-loading is an option.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>In general, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&amp;#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam, but aside from that, it seems like it&amp;#x27;ll only attract attention from people wanting &amp;quot;free games&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad too, since the Wii is a console that makes it extraordinarily simple to dump your own game discs and use the emulator in a completely legal fashion.</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Given how many YouTubers brazenly use dolphin on steam decks and say you can get free games, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>philistine</author><text>I would bet good money that this is exactly why a DMCA was sent; someone at Nintendo was shown a Steam Deck, which is a big Switch competitor, loading Dolphin and playing Gamecube games for free with better performance than what Nintendo themselves deign to provide us.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/05/27/dolphin-steam-indefinitely-postponed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wtallis</author><text>&amp;gt; In general, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&amp;#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam,&lt;p&gt;In case you haven&amp;#x27;t heard of it, Valve sells the Steam Deck: a handheld gaming console with Steam as its primary UI. Under the hood, it&amp;#x27;s a low-power AMD x86 system running Linux (specifically, Valve&amp;#x27;s SteamOS distro). So having Dolphin on Steam would be the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Steam Deck users, just like having Dolphin available on the Google Play Store is the optimal way to make Dolphin available to Android users even though side-loading is an option.</text></item><item><author>chungy</author><text>In general, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what the idea of putting Dolphin on Steam was supposed to gain. First, I have a hard time conceiving why I&amp;#x27;d even want to manage it from Steam, but aside from that, it seems like it&amp;#x27;ll only attract attention from people wanting &amp;quot;free games&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s sad too, since the Wii is a console that makes it extraordinarily simple to dump your own game discs and use the emulator in a completely legal fashion.</text></item><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>Given how many YouTubers brazenly use dolphin on steam decks and say you can get free games, I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extrememacaroni</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not like having dolphin on steam will give you access to free gamecube and wii games. You will still have to get them yourself and&amp;#x2F;or any bioses that may be required, I dunno.&lt;p&gt;Which means a bit of hacking, which means you should already be capable enough to install emudeck on your steam deck. Which is vastly superior to any single emulator on steam itself.</text></comment>