This is where the Steam Link is really good, situationally. There’s also the real kicker here: are you the type of person who wants to play games on your TV that you would traditionally play only with a mouse and keyboard, in front of a PC? A Civilization fan, perhaps? Paradox Grand Strategy? Total War? I’m not sure how the offspring of Call of Duty players will turn out, but I don’t think it’s going to be pretty. Seriously, I hope this doesn’t apply to many people. Perhaps you often game in an area of your home that is off limits at certain times? Maybe you have put the kids to sleep, and the gaming PC is in the next room, so you want to be able to get some quality Call of Duty time downstairs where you won’t be waking them up every few minutes with the incessant irritation of MG42 fire. I don’t always want to spend my time in front of the gaming PC, so the Steam Link is a great fit for my situation. The living room is where I like to… do my living… and there is a decent sofa, a decent TV, and a few consoles. I have a TV in a separate room to my gaming setup.

That’s a lot of people who wouldn’t find a use for a little black box under the TV, but there’s plenty of potential winners here as well. If you like spending time at your gaming PC and you don’t have any desire to use other parts of your home for that particular addiction, you’re likely to find no value in a Steam Link. You might be a sheep and already own a DXRacer chair because you lack the ability to pick any other chair on your own, or you’re scared in case you pick the wrong chair and people laugh at you.

Other people might already have a very comfortable gaming setup.

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