Valve is quietly discontinuing Steam Link, the in-home streaming box it first launched in late 2015. A low-key announcement on Valve's Steam Link news page suggests that production of new units has ceased and that Valve is currently selling off the rest of its "almost sold out" inventory in the US, after selling out completely in Europe. Valve says it will continue to offer support for existing Steam Link hardware.
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The discontinuation of Steam Link hardware wasn't a complete surprise, given that Valve was briefly selling the playing-card-deck-sized devices for a closeout price of $2.50 earlier this year. And though Valve insists it's "still working hard" on Linux gaming and bringing Windows game compatibility to SteamOS, Valve's much ballyhooed circa-2015 hardware initiative has not made a huge impact on the marketplace.It remains to be seen whether Valve will continue to sell the Steam Controller, after both Steam Machines and Steam Link failed to make an impact on the market; the Controller is currently 30% off, which might just be a Black Friday special, or might be the start of a sell-off of that inventory, as well.
The fact that Valve is, in fact, still working hard on Linux gaming serves to ease some of the sting from this news, but even so... I can't help but wish that things had gone differently. Farewell, Steam Link. We hardly knew ye, and you're gone too soon.