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Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:59 am 
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http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-box-xi3

That looks... familiar. Where have I seen that design before? :-D


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I'm getting mixed reports that this might NOT be the final product.

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Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:37 am 
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Well, it's not the final product appearance: It's a design of another product by the manufacturer. Spare case, pretty much.

BUT it is a bad console. It seems like they're going to sell it for more than the PS3 debuted at, and have lower specs.

Earth to Valve: What's wrong with you?


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Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:38 am 
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It's not a console. It's a spec. It's a PC to run in your TV stand and run Linux supported Steam games (which has a very small list at the moment), which typically cost more than a PS3.

There were several prototypes by different makers are CES as well, not just this one.

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Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:21 am 
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Indeed, Zmt. However...it seems like it'll be worth about $500 (based on my laptop's price since EXACT SAME SPECS) and possess a $999 pricetag.

But yeah...I also strongly dislike the marketing tactic that it runs all Steam games, when it's a very limited amount of games on Steam in reality.


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Unread postPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:29 am 
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You are missing the point. The price can not be dictated by Valve when giving vendors creative rights on hardware design. Some steam boxes will be $500 and some will be much more expensive.

The great thing about creating a spec rather than a product, is you can build your own. It's a linux box, running steam. Run with it.

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Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:47 am 
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Heh.

I think that it probably runs a Valve distro, though.

But, still, I don't like that marketing tactic with the "Steam library of thousands of games" being available.

I should make a topic where I just criticize Steam.

Anyway, they also say that a mobile Steambox console will be released, if I interpreted Gabe Newell talking about "Littlefoot" correctly.


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Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 6:00 am 
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They may roll their own, sure. But absolutely nothing is stopping you from downloading the packages and installing them on an Ubuntu 12* machine or a Fedora 17* machine like I did.

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Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:33 am 
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zmttoxics wrote:
They may roll their own, sure. But absolutely nothing is stopping you from downloading the packages and installing them on an Ubuntu 12* machine or a Fedora 17* machine like I did.

I know. I don't think you're getting my point, though.

They're falsely advertising that the Steam library of thousands of games is fully playable with a Steambox, so then people will think that it's a good value because it has cheap, plentiful games. In addition, it costs way too much. I do like the concept of a controller that can change for different games, though. (See Valve's controller patent.)


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Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:19 am 
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Nuke wrote:
They're falsely advertising that the Steam library of thousands of games is fully playable with a Steambox,


Ehm, what is falsely about that? Have they actually sold Steamboxes yet?


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Unread postPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:26 am 
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Does it matter even? The statement isn't wrong. The steam library is massive. Steambox compatible is a different subject.

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Unread postPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:42 am 
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The Steam library is indeed massive. The statement is wrong because it only has access to about 1% of the Steam library.


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