Diggdydog Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Source It's not 100% confirmed if it is the Steam Box, but it seems pretty likely. It's made as a smaller PC geared towards running games on Steam in 'Big Picture' mode. It's being produced by Xi3 in partnership with Valve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakerhead. Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Steam? Box? I haven't been following gaming devices, so can someone insight me alittle bit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diggdydog Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 It's supposed to be Valve's entry into console gaming 'or similar'. I believe they're trying to combine the benefits of PC gaming (visuals, better hardware etc.) with the benefits of console games (easy UI, specifically optimised for console). I remember hearing somewhere it's supposed to be upgradable. I'll try find sources for all this tomorrow, but right now I'm waaay to tired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryuclan Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Steambox. That sounds so wrong. Anyway that would be sweet for a person like me who wants to do PC gaming but sucks at Keyboard and mouse controls, and don't have the patience to save up money for a good enough rig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kudoboi Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 (edited) there won't be an announcement this year so don't expect to buy this anytime soon Following that speech, a report on Golem.de (translated at the Neogaf gaming forums) posited that Krasnow indicated a reveal of said Steambox at this March's Game Developer's Conference, or perhaps at this June's E3 gaming trade show -- but Krasnow tells us he didn't say that exactly. "With regards to the Steambox news -- there has been a lot of things stated in the media which I didn't say. For example, it's true that we are working on getting Steam into the living room, and are planning for a hardware box, but we have no current plans to announce anything in 2013," Krasnow said in an email. there are some rumors going around steam that HL3 will be steambox exclusive. lets hope that isn't the case because if it is then valve is no better than microsoft. especially when valve keeps criticizing microsoft and sony the past few months and steambox is linux too. i don't think this will succeed very well because most devs aren't porting their games to linux. expect it to be a dead platform for games just like OSX Edited January 9, 2013 by kudoboi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chukkles Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 If they can do what was done on PC with HL2 and add cs source and hl mp, which weren't on console versions, (i'm glad I had the PC version), then I would be well up for it. I'm not sure if hl mp was included in console hl2. I slipped out of PC gaming with vista, It won't run steam on our PC, or many other games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diggdydog Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Ryuclan, to be honest is priced pretty similarly to a gaming rig, if it's the steam box he's discussing in the video he said around $999. Kinda steep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullworthAcademy Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 http://www.computerandvideogames.com/38551...g-shown-at-ces/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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