You can still find devices on third-party retailers, but they’ll soon be all gone. Moving forward, Valve intends to continue supporting the existing Steam Link hardware as well as distribution of the software versions of Steam Link, available for many leading smart phones, tablets and televisions,” the company says on the store page. “The supply of physical Steam Link hardware devices is sold out. The company is switching to a software strategy. Even before the Nintendo Switch, companies were thinking about ways to play the same game in multiple ways.Īnd if you were wondering why the Steam Link has yet to receive an update, you now have the answer. It could only do one thing - you could connect the Steam Link to a Steam client running on a powerful computer and play games on a different screen. The Steam Link was a tiny box with an HDMI port, USB ports, an Ethernet port, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and more. In other words, you had no way to install an app and run it on your TV. Google, Amazon and Apple had just released Android TV, the Fire TV and tvOS. When Valve introduced the Steam Link in 2015, your TV setup was completely different. The device will become unavailable once all units have been sold. The message says that Valve is discontinuing the Steam Link. Just keep in mind that there's always a risk of your console being banned by Nintendo or even getting bricked when doing stuff like that.Valve has quietly updated the Steam page for the Steam Link. I don't know any details on how to do that though and I'm not even sure if I were allowed to post them here, but anyone who's seriously interested should look into that. There are ways to run Android on a Switch, which gives access to pretty much any Android app, including the Steam Link app.
That being said, it is possible to use Steam Link on a hacked Switch today and apparently it even runs quite well. I don't think the potential increase in Switch hardware sales can make up for that. There's also the point that this might incentivize some people to buy their games on Steam rather than for the Switch or not to buy a Switch game that they already own on Steam. We barely even got YouTube more than a year and a half after the Switch released. Nintendo is just not the kind of company to do such a thing. I'd be very surprised if we ever officially saw Steam Link on the Switch.
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