

I tried playing some non-steam games and BF4 was basically unplayable in my situation. When I told my wife I bought it, she was initially ticked off until she realized that the Link easily streams your desktop to the TV and now she wants to go shop for a wireless KB&M so she can work from home on the sofa.
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For playing games while on the recliner or sofa, the vast majority of my games run and look just fine, like borderlands 2, Styx and some sidescrollers I have. I got the Steam Link and it works really well, although there are a couple of situations that games don’t work well or not at all and I think that is mostly due to my PC being connected to my network on wireless N 2.4Ghz(link is hardwired to router). We'll definitely have more on the Steam Controller and Steam Link very soon, but I think this video should be able to help you decide if this is something you want to add to your gaming arsenal. The video below walks through a quick unboxing of the two new hardware options from Valve and demonstrates the use of the controller in a couple of games as well. The Steam Link is Valve's answer to GeForce GameStream and allows you to share your Steam library on your local network to another display or TV in your home. The Steam Controller has evolved drastically since I first got hands on with it and its implementation of unique haptic feedback and a thumb-specific touch pad on the right, rather than a second analog stick, make it quite different than the Xbox or PlayStation controllers popular today. I was one of the lucky early users to get my hands on both of the units. Last Friday, the early buyers of the Steam Controller and the Steam Link device, built by Valve directly, began to receive their hardware.

A new controller for PC gamers Valve’s Steam Controller is finally shipping, along with the Steam Link, promising to change how PC gamers play.
