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"In a somewhat unexpected move, Steam Deck creator Valve has just announced a new Steam Machine, a home console built around SteamOS. This is the famed gaming company's second swing at a home gaming platform, as the first Steam Machine launched in 2015 to poor sales. The console was mostly wiped from Steam's store just a few years later, in 2018. This previous failure might come as something of a surprise considering the overwhelming success of the Steam Deck, Valve's breakout portable gaming device. The Steam Deck (along with its Steam OLED premium model) can be considered partially responsible for the explosion in portable or hybrid gaming PCs over the past few years—a hardware trend that even Microsoft has begun to partake in via the ROG Xbox Ally, an Xbox-branded handheld. However, the Steam Machine is targeting a notably different hardware category."