I’m on board with devs making text more readable for the Steam Deck, but the Steam Machine would have much larger screens where this wouldn’t really be a problem for it.
Eh, kinda? The screens will be much bigger, but the viewing distance will also be greater. To a degree it balances out. It’s not like a PC where you get a bigger screen with the same close viewing distance. In a standard living room, you might be 6-10 ft (2-3m) from the TV.
Any game that the text size looks fine on Windows should be fine on the Steam Machine and these are Windows games predominantly.
The issue is that the Steam Machine has good odds of being plugged into a TV 10 feet away rather than a monitor 2 feet away.
Small text on a 4k TV could be very hard to read.
You are more likely to run into text being to large in that scenario. I have Ultrawide 40" 5k2k & 32" 4k computer monitor and run linux with Steam. Text is fine, It is just going to get larger on a bigger screen. Steam has scaling for its interface and Plasma, the desktop for SteamOS, is feature rich for most people’s usages. I am certain people already are using Linux and Steam with TVs. If there is an issue, it would also be an issue on Windows. Mostly older games that weren’t updated for HiDPI screens.
The text scaling has to be implemented in-game though, or the game has to have appropriately-sized text.
Some games have options to change the text size, which is great. Others have small text regardless of screen size.
Yeah, but mostly going older games. Newer games usually have accessibility settings now, probably due to laws in various parts of the world. Anything since HiDPI became common should be fine.
If it’s common now, then what’s the problem with it being a requirement to be certified?
