The reason for the ASUS ROG Ally is because of the Steam Deck, as well as Sony and others taking note and looking at their own projects (Sony announced something they pushed as a Switch-like device but it’s really two halves of a PS5 controller and remote play on a screen to my understanding). The recent remote play for consoles craze (Microsoft really pushing this, as are Sony, and Google tried) is mostly because of Steam Remote Play. The reason for the last 10 years of loot boxes is because the industry looked at Valve’s implementation of loot boxes in TF2 way back when and said “we want a piece of that pie”. The early access craze of every release has its roots in when Steam allowed early access games, and became a sort of game Kickstarter where people would purchase alpha builds and beta builds and then hope for a satisfying game as the devs catered to what players said in feedback.
In a lot of ways Valve is the biggest industry leader in games, of course never really acknowledged though being they don’t aspire to have the profile of Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, etc but their tech is watched keenly.
POV: you are Australian