Valve Reveals First Gen Steam Machines

This is rather large news and I hope it sales well!

Looking forward to it, and I will get one for my living room (decided on this over an Xbox or PS4) as I have a decent sized Steam library.

For those who hate Steam, you should be unaffected as I am sure Frontier will never go down the road of being a Steam exclusive title :). So, I hope we see Elite released on Steam as well and with a Linux port so we can play it on the Steam Machine.

:D
 
Every single news speaks about 3000 games as there should work all of them while only a fraction has Linux support now. Wondering how they deal with it and why they don't mention it won't really run most of them.. or the way they are supposed to work.
 
Every single news speaks about 3000 games as there should work all of them while only a fraction has Linux support now. Wondering how they deal with it and why they don't mention it won't really run most of them.. or the way they are supposed to work.

in a word 'streaming' the console itself will be like a control interface used to access games on a windows/mac based machine for those titles that are not compatible with linux.

from Valve's SteamOS page:

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
 
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Valve has my trust for now, and for as long as it does nothing to lose it. So I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and will buy a toppish range machine from them to give it a go.
 
Valve has my trust for now, and for as long as it does nothing to lose it. So I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and will buy a toppish range machine from them to give it a go.
I've seen the prices of some of those top end machines. I wish I had that sort of money. I'll probably clag together some cheap bit of tin, attach a Steam Machine Controller, and crayon the words "Steem Mushine" on the side of it <sigh>.
 
in a word 'streaming' the console itself will be like a control interface used to access games on a windows/mac based machine for those titles that are not compatible with linux.

from Valve's SteamOS page:
You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Umm...isn't it just easier to connect your PC directly to your TV if you want your games to stream on your TV? :S
And no compatibility issues either.
 
Umm...isn't it just easier to connect your PC directly to your TV if you want your games to stream on your TV? :S
And no compatibility issues either.

that was my first thought, but how many of us have or even want their PC in the living room?

the steam box is valves attempt to bring PC games into the living room while preserving the option of housing the system itself somewhere else, that way when your significant other wants to watch ender's on the telly you can still go back to the bedroom/diningroom/home office and game to your hearts content but when friends come over to play you can transfer to the more guest friendly front room and big screen TV for a more social friendly gaming experience.
 

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Do we know yet if ED will be designed to be SteamOS compatible.

Been looking at some of these new steam machines and finding them quite tempting. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/va...-images-and-full-specs-revealed/1100-6416968/
The only OS's ED is currently being developed for is Win PC and Mac. However, with it being written on their Cobra engine http://frontier.co.uk/our_technology/ who knows what the future may bring.

All of Frontier’s games are developed using our Cobra proprietary cross-platform
technology, allowing code and resources developed on PC to be compiled and run
on XBox360, PS3, iOS, Nintendo WiiU etc. (with new platforms in development),
whilst offering the ability flexibly to take advantage of the different
platforms’ capabilities (e.g. different artwork resolutions, shaders etc.).
 
Basically it's a PC bundled with a special controller, no copy of Windows, no keyboard/mouse, and seemingly no DVD/Blu-ray drive (presumably so that it's a pain in the bum to install Windows). Furthermore, all your games are belong to Steam. I really don't see it.
 
but when friends come over to play you can transfer to the more guest friendly front room and big screen TV for a more social friendly gaming experience.

Honestly, this is a scenario I last time had in the Nintendo 64 era, don't know if this is still a practice nowadays, but where I live, not much...

Precisely. An HDMI cable would be much cheaper than one of these new Steam machines.

Yes, together with wireless mouse and keyboard :)
 
Basically it's a PC bundled with a special controller, no copy of Windows, no keyboard/mouse, and seemingly no DVD/Blu-ray drive (presumably so that it's a pain in the bum to install Windows). Furthermore, all your games are belong to Steam. I really don't see it.

Yeah; I reckon it would be more sensible to just upgrade your current PC. At least you can still do other things with it then.
 
Do we know yet if ED will be designed to be SteamOS compatible.

Been looking at some of these new steam machines and finding them quite tempting. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/va...-images-and-full-specs-revealed/1100-6416968/

If they are making a Mac version it's not such a huge step to port it to Linux (SteamOS is Linux). Mac OS is basically a butchered version of Unix that you have to pay for, so much of the architecture and APIs are similar.

But anyway, the steam machines seem overpriced for what it just an mATX PC without a DVD drive. They also don't give any specs on the PSU, cooling (how hot and loud is it?) or motherboard. You could build a PC yourself with the same specs for less using good quality stuff, add in an Antec watercooler for the CPU and it's still less.
 
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