Is Valve Taking On Microsoft? with Steve Burke
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about Valve’s new console-like Steam Machine and Vision Pro-like Steam Frame, and what this means for the future of gaming.
GamersNexus:
Valve Steam Machine, Desktop SteamOS, Steam Frame VR, & Controller | ft. Engineering Discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUxObt1efQ
Valve Steam Frame Engineering Deep-Dive: Water Cooling, Thermals, Power, Acoustics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NSjvJDe6Ic
Support GamersNexus’ AI Surveillance Dystopia Series: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia
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Steam Machine: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
Steam Frame: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.6 | Quarzone Media. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello and welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:30.4 | Better Offline. I'm a lot of, And I'd like to announce that much like NVIDIA revealed in a recent leaked memo, we are also nothing like Enron. |
| 0:41.7 | Today I'm joined by the wonderful Steve Burke from Gamer's Nexus, who's going to talk to me about, I know it's a thematic shift from the show, about something that actually exists. And we're talking about an announcement from a few weeks ago from Valve about the Steam Frame headset and the Steam Machine console. Steve, thank you for |
| 0:46.4 | joining me. Thank you for having me. A quick question. What was the Enron thing? I think I didn't |
| 0:53.2 | see that one. This is important. So, Nvidia had an internal memo that they put out. And they said, and the headline from Barron's was, I'm just going to pull this up right now because it's one of my favorite I've ever read. Nvidia says it's not Enron in private memo refuting accounting questions. Ah. Good stuff. |
| 1:11.5 | That's what we want to hear. |
| 1:13.9 | And they were like, we're nothing like Enron because we don't use SPVs to inflate revenue. |
| 1:21.0 | It's also good. |
| 1:22.4 | It's all real, Steve. |
| 1:24.2 | It's all very real. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm starting to have my doubts that this AI stuff is built |
| 1:30.8 | on anything real. Although I did hear about the two data centers that are currently sitting |
| 1:36.2 | empty because the grid can't support them until 2028. Oh, which ones? Because that's... |
| 1:41.0 | I think it was in the Northern California. Hell yeah. I love this. This is, we live in the future. But genuinely, talk to me about the steam machine. What is this thing? It's like a games console. Like, walk me through it. Yeah, no. I mean, this stuff's actually, it was a really nice break from everything else because like you said it's real they're actually doing |
| 2:01.6 | stuff it's consumer facing so that's nice and there's some pretty some of these things have |
| 2:06.4 | cool innovations in them so uh the steam machine is a small basically small form factor PC but it's |
| 2:15.0 | kind of positioned almost like a console at at least in terms of sizing the intent |
| 2:20.3 | to be used with a TV or in a living room, although it could be used desktop. But instead of being a |
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