The Steam Machine Takes on PS5 and Xbox

While Marques is out enjoying the Ultimate Frisbee on a beach somewhere, Andrew and David sit down to talk about everything from the new Steam devices to Google Gemini 3. After that, things go off the rails quickly as everyone discusses the pros and cons of local storage vs cloud storage. Enjoy!

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Valve - New Steam devices (steamdb.info/blog/steam-hardware-2025)

Tom's Guide - Rabbit next-gen hardware (tomsguide.com/ai/rabbits-next-gen-ai-hardware-…)

Tom's Guide - Employee payment story (tomsguide.com/ai/whats-next-for-rabbit-employe…)

Google - Gemini 3 announcement blog (blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/#gemini-3)

Google - Antigravity announcement (antigravity.google/use-cases)

Verge - Cloudflare outage (theverge.com/news/823562/cloudflare-outage-wak…)

Damien Wilde YouTube channel (youtube.com/@DamienWilde)

Dave2D - Steam video (youtube.com/watch?v=356rZ8IBCps)

ShortCircuit - M5 video (youtu.be/xwJhhPCweWk?si=mQqFXZPVXtefoy0U)

@Privatetalky on Twitter/X - Storage tweet (x.com/privatetalky?lang=en)

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