The News Grandmaster 4000

Ditto.

Maybe my bad experience with it was due to both having a bad computer and not being able to hook the Link up via ethernet cable, but I feel like a lot of what I didn’t like about it was unrelated to speed and performance.

For one, I had gone into this thing thinking that it would treat the TV as a separate monitor. It doesn’t. It literally just runs Big Picture mode your primary monitor and then mirrors it on your TV, so if you were expecting it to free up a screen while you game, I have bad news.

Another problem is that I feel like only being able to navigate Big Picture mode with the analog stick is a huge oversight. The d-pad does nothing in the menus.

Edit: Oh also, any input devices you want to use have to be plugged into the steam link itself, you can’t just use the ones attached to your computer, even though it’s just running it on your main screen and then dittoing it to another screen.

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