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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?

Baby Tezro

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

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Cute, good thing I got some paint and SGI cubes laying about.

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?

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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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.

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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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.

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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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.)

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

Does it matter even? The statement isn't wrong. The steam library is massive. Steambox compatible is a different subject.

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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.