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Jun
Valve's Second Shot: Can the Steam Machine Kill the Console? In 2015, Valve's first Steam Machine landed with a thud. The living room PC was expensive, confusing, and arrived in a market that didn't yet understand what it was supposed to be. Consoles had won the couch. But that was nearly a decade ago, and the game—literally—has changed. Valve is planning a summer launch for the Steam Machine, and this time it's entering a living room where PlayStation is abandoning exclusivity, Xbox is in a slow identity crisis, and the line between PC and console gaming has already started to…