But with the current price of consoles, it seems a bit of a luxury to have both. I've always been primarily a PC gamer, but I do enjoy sitting back with some mates and mashing buttons with some Tekken or similar running on the TV. Upside of Xbox One controller: most steam games use the xbox button layout/symbols. A good place to buy is Amazon US, where you can buy a controller plus wireless adapter for less than the price of a separate controller locally.

A specific wireless dongle is needed and can be hard to find locally. Also make sure they are connected to your network with wires. Tl:dr version: If you are thinking about doing this, make sure your PC and 2016+ Samsung Smart TV are close enough / same room (YMMV). Hopefully, this can help anyone else who might go down this route.

Playing Steam games on a Steam Link system requires a compatible controller, and if Samsung decides not to bundle a Steam Controller or other gamepad with the TVs then buyers will need to shell out additional cash to make use of the Steam Link functionality.Thought I should post my experiences here, as this was a bit of process and the info on the web can be slightly conflicting. One particular piece of information missing is whether the Steam Link support will be ready out-of-the-box.

Announced at Valve's Steam Dev Days conference, details of the partnership - such as which models of TV will support Steam Link and when they are likely to hit the market - have not yet been released. Under the partnership, future Samsung smart TVs will integrate Steam Link functionality, giving them the ability to use Steam In-Home Streaming without a dedicated receiver box. Valve's Steam Link box allows a user with a powerful gaming PC to play games on TVs around the house without having to lug the base unit around, but the company's deal with Samsung means even that small box may become unnecessary. While the initial explosion of interest in cloud-based gaming - where powerful remote render farms are used for the heavy lifting of gaming, sending video and audio streams to a lightweight client device for display - may have died down with few beyond Sony seeing longevity, the extension of the technology into in-home streaming has proven somewhat more popular.

Valve has confirmed that it has signed a deal with Samsung to integrate Steam Link technology into the company's future smart TVs, negating the need to buy a dedicated box.

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