Yes and before valve got involved gaming on wine was a hit and miss (mostly a miss). Whereas now basically 100% of the games i play just work with no to minimal tinkering. They put in a lot of effort to get all the kinks out. And steam input is also a huge factor in this. Downplaying their involvement is akin to downplaying wine’s achievements because it’s built on top of linux.

A 25% increase is $625. Not $575… But either way they are insane prices and i really don’t understand how there’s a market at that price point.

If only it was mentioned in the article…

This is mainly data reported from desktop PCs, so no, SteamOS is not a thing at the moment on such machines.