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Valve's planning an announcement for Monday and it could be the Steam Box

 

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There's only so much we can read into Valve's vague plans to "connect the dots for customers who want Steam in the living room," but the safe bet is on the Steam Box. The company's just-launched teaser site shows a countdown clock leading up to Monday's announcement, as well as an image of a controller leading into darkness (oh, and there's the profile of a cat, too.) Valve's planned entry into the hardware space has already been well-documented, so a dedicated console for PC-gaming in the living room should come as no surprise. What's more intriguing, however, is Valve's desire to connect users to its "design process." Could that mean the launch of a beta testing program? We'll know for sure come early next week.

 

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/20/Valve-Steam-Box-teaser/

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Actually they have 3 announcements coming: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/

 

Notice the 3 circles at the bottom, one with the countdown timer until Monday (coinciding with the article in the OP).

 

Valve has done the unthinkable, they have counted to three. One of those better be HL3 and the other better be Portal 3.

don't forget about hopefully L4D3  :)

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Not sure why you guys are getting all hyped up about game releases, this is a Steam announcement - not a Valve announcement.

 

It's highly likely any big SP game announcements from Valve will be done first through an ARG like with Portal 2, not a banal teaser page with a countdown.

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yeah my guess is it's either about the steam box or more info on the game sharing feature they've been talking about

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The teaser says "The Steam Universe is Expanding", it shows a picture of an HDTV and the url contains /livingroom/.

 

I think it's more than obvious what the announcement is going to be about.

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Funny how people think steambox will actually have an impact and be some kind of revolution and savior. 

 

it'll just be an expensive console that, underperforms and misses the most important part of a console, hardware and software uniformity. 

 

Then again, they may announce some other expansion to Steam and hopefully leave the whole steambox project dead. They already added apps/programs to steam, so why not music, movies, series for the big screen mode...

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Funny how people think steambox will actually have an impact and be some kind of revolution and savior.

Personally don't see it making a huge impact myself. On the console side it's going up against two juggernauts that have ginormous followings, and on the PC side it's kind of a "meh", especially since it's apparently running Linux so the game selection is going to be pretty slim and/or old games, never mind it's not really bringing anything new to the table.. kind of in a "whats the point" mindset with it at the moment.
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Funny how people think steambox will actually have an impact and be some kind of revolution and savior. 

 

it'll just be an expensive console that, underperforms and misses the most important part of a console, hardware and software uniformity. 

 

Then again, they may announce some other expansion to Steam and hopefully leave the whole steambox project dead. They already added apps/programs to steam, so why not music, movies, series for the big screen mode...

 

Seems more rational than oh say, someone purposely going into a thread about a console he has no interest for the sole purpose of attacking it over a minor details pretty much no one cares about, except the attacker who uses it as a neena neena.

Very mature behaviour.

 

:rofl:

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:rofl:

 

what about it, I didn't just randomly attack the steambox. and maybe don't pick single posts out of a sequence of related ones to try to make some point that doesn't exist. Helps to understand the difference between valid criticism and baseless attacks on minor anthills that you purposely make into mountains for the sole purpose of trolling which the other person did just to incite a flamewar. 

 

The steambox as it is, is currently following one of two strategies.

 

1: it's a linux powered steambox, licensed to OEM's with upgradeable hardware

 - this option has two problems non conformed hardware makes it hard to optimize for it. linux has horrible general gaming support from device support to game support. basically there won'tbe any games and it won't be easy to get working controllers at all times, and developers don't have a set guideline of hardware to standardize and optimize for

 

2: The universal steambox, basically allowing the OEM's to use any OS and hardware they want, and release them as steambox licensed consoles. Meaning the majority of them would run Windows 8(ouch Gabe), but you would have far more games available. license costs would drive up the costs of the console. same issue with hardware fragmentation and since unlike linux they can't customize the OS, they can't make it a specialized steambox OS to increase performance. 

 

both options of course has price issues, something we already seen with the prototype steamboxes and the company that made the horrible piston and pulled out of the steambox cooperation. 

 

As it is for Steam right now, Steambox makes no sense, just let OEM's make gaming computers that you can run big screen mode on, or people make their own steamboxes and steam concentrate on adding stuff to steam to make steam fucntion as a full big screen mode gaming and media hub. 

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Personally don't see it making a huge impact myself. On the console side it's going up against two juggernauts that have ginormous followings, and on the PC side it's kind of a "meh", especially since it's apparently running Linux so the game selection is going to be pretty slim and/or old games, never mind it's not really bringing anything new to the table.. kind of in a "whats the point" mindset with it at the moment.

 

 

So far most rumors indicate they're going the OEM route. letting any OEM make their own steamboxes (hello CD-i) with their choice of OS. (I think even Gabe has realized the linux thing isn't working out)

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what about it, I didn't just randomly attack the steambox. and maybe don't pick single posts out of a sequence of related ones to try to make some point that doesn't exist. Helps to understand the difference between valid criticism and baseless attacks on minor anthills that you purposely make into mountains for the sole purpose of trolling which the other person did just to incite a flamewar. 

 

Don't play dumb HawkMan, you did exactly what you accused Audioboxer of doing. Jumping into a thread to criticise something you have no interest in.

 

You would be the first to rant and rave if someone had the gall to jump into an Xbox One thread and call it an expensive console that will underperform. It would be like world war 3, except with the Microsoft defence force instead of nukes.

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Funny how people think steambox will actually have an impact and be some kind of revolution and savior. 

 

it'll just be an expensive console that, underperforms and misses the most important part of a console, hardware and software uniformity. 

 

Then again, they may announce some other expansion to Steam and hopefully leave the whole steambox project dead. They already added apps/programs to steam, so why not music, movies, series for the big screen mode...

Why must we hate technology? If Valve wants to try something along the lines of a "Steambox", why do we need to be total jerks about it expecting the worst? I'm not saying go run and give them your money or whatever, but the negativity on this forum seems to be getting out of hand. So much for "tech enthusiasts".

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Don't play dumb HawkMan, you did exactly what you accused Audioboxer of doing. Jumping into a thread to criticise something you have no interest in.

 

You would be the first to rant and rave if someone had the gall to jump into an Xbox One thread and call it an expensive console that will underperform. It would be like world war 3, except with the Microsoft defence force instead of nukes.

 

 

If you're really saying I did the same he did, then you're either being purposely dense, or you're just trying to make me look bad.

 

as I said, there's a mile of difference between criticism of a product and how they're doing it, and nitpicking minor details (repeatedly in every thread that mentions xbox i might add) and making them out to be humongous issues. 

 

Last I checked your scenarios has happened extremely frequently, and no, I have never been the first to rant or rave, and don't do either but try to counter with actual arguments. you should try it sometimes. 

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Why must we hate technology? If Valve wants to try something along the lines of a "Steambox", why do we need to be total jerks about it expecting the worst? I'm not saying go run and give them your money or whatever, but the negativity on this forum seems to be getting out of hand. So much for "tech enthusiasts".

 

what does it have to do with hating technology.

 

Steam should just continue doing what they're doing, focus on the big screen mode and expand on it's functions. and let self builders and oems build "steamboxes"- 

 

it doesn't need to be a special hardware. 

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what does it have to do with hating technology.

 

Steam should just continue doing what they're doing, focus on the big screen mode and expand on it's functions. and let self builders and oems build "steamboxes"- 

 

it doesn't need to be a special hardware. 

Because you don't know what could happen. I mean, did we really expect the Xbox to hit it off when they launched? I sure as hell didn't. Hell, I remember thinking the name "Xbox" sounded incredibly unoriginal and corny as a teenager. Now it's a bigger name than we could ever imagine.

 

I'm not expecting something along the lines of a "Steambox" to hit it off either, but then again, I have very little hope for all those who enter the arena of gaming consoles. Still, I don't see the point in just dismissing the idea completely.

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