MANUFACTURER VALVE
Valve first crossed the line from software developer to hardware designer with these three devices. It was Valve’s first stab at building a console-like experience around PC gaming, without actually making a console. Unsurprisingly, this half-measured approach didn’t catch on, and Steam Machines had all but vanished from Steam by 2018. That said, the Steam Link was a genuinely neat piece of hardware, and Valve’s hardware aspirations would see much greater success in the years to come.