Regarding the Raspberry Pi 3B and 4B, while I find the concept of ARM mini-desktop PC very appealing and nice, it doesn't look as convenient as the original Steam Link Hardware. The Amazon Fire TV stick is not a real option because you need to unofficially sideload the steam link app on top of completely lacking USB port.the 1080p model sell for 49,99$ (57.48$ with taxes) here while the 4K variant sell for 69.99$ (80.47$ with taxes) I understand the Shield ship with a way more powerful GPU but I have no need for it really.

The NVIDIA Shield sell for 199,99$ + 14,975% applicable taxes (in my province anyway) so that made this a 229,94$ options, which I find rather high considering the original Steam Link hardware sold for 49,99$ CAD (57,48$ with taxes) when it was being produced. I live in Canada, and here our money isn't worth turd actually. The rest of the options are categories rather than specific devices can't really say what features any given smart TV (for example) will and will not have. Fire stick definitely falls short on both the wired network and USB ports. The Pi4 uses micro-HDMI, so falls short there. The Pi3 meets your feature set pretty much exactly. If you have any other set-top media devices you can probably retire them if you get a Shield. The Shield absolutely ticks all of those boxes, and then some.

While spending the less possible amount of money.

1x Full-size HDMI port (no mini or micro).I'd love to have those set of features as a minimum : E.g., on my Nvidia Shield the Xbox controller works everywhere for starting the shield and getting into the app, but my Steam controller will only work after the Steam Link app is running. Originally posted by Epsilons:Also i'd like to know, which options will not support the Steam Controller (i own one) and which options will not support Xbox One S/X Controller over Bluetooth ?Īnything that has bluetooth should support the xbox controller and steam controller, with the caveat that it's possible they will only work within the Steam Link app if the device doesn't have native support within the OS.

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