Even more wild is that Valve snuck out an update to their Steam controller making it fully compatible with iOS devices and the Apple TV. Quite simply, Steam Link for iOS devices and the Apple TV works so well it straight up feels like there’s some kind of actual wizardry powering it all. I figured it’d be cool enough to be worth checking out, but probably slow enough that you could really only play turn-based games and it seemed like there was a 0% chance you’d actually be able to interact with any Steam library management, purchasing, or anything to do with the player-driven Steam marketplace. For whatever reason, I really never was able to get this working well enough to invoke anything beyond a, “Huh, that’s neat." There was just enough lag to be annoying, even when I hardwired everything.īetween these two previous examples of services and hardware that have attempted what Valve is doing, I’ll fully admit: I was not optimistic for the iOS Steam Link app. Curiously enough, one of the big features of the Nvidia shield was that it’s able to stream gameplay from your PC, much like what Steam Link does. OnLive streamed high-end PC games, very similar to Steam Link, but never got off the ground due to Apple’s policies which prevented them from running their own storefront inside of the OnLive app, and allowing people to run games that weren’t filtered through the App Store approval process.Īs time went on, Nvidia eventually released the Shield which we took an in-depth look at prior to the launch of the current Apple TV. The highest profile service would probably be OnLive, which we extensively previewed just as our beta build was about to expire. Now, we’ve been around long enough here at TouchArcade that we’ve seen our fair share of game streaming services come and go. Meanwhile, tons of people have iPads, iPhones, and/or Apple TVs, so some sort of app-based implementation of Steam Link seems far more ideal- Particularly when compared to buying yet another piece of hardware to live in your home theater setup. The problem is it’s another set top box to buy, which (at least amongst my circle of gamer friends) led to fewer people than I would have expected actually picking one up because in this day and age between Apple TVs, Amazon Fire devices, Google Chromecast, and an array of consoles, needing one more HDMI port to plug something in is a tall ask. Unsurprisingly, like most things Valve does, the Steam Link works pretty well. Released back in November of 2015, Steam Link is a hardware device that allows you to stream games from your PC to your TV, played via the Steam Controller. Earlier this month we got news that Valve had plans to bring a Steam Link app to the Apple TV and iOS devices.
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