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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45820

The Verge has the story, and says
that they\'re not only working on such hardware, but they plan to make
Steam \'the center of an open gaming universe that mirrors what Google
has done with Android.\' Valve head Gabe Newell recently told Penny
Arcade \'Well, if we have to sell hardware we will\' and followed that u

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Good and bad news at the same time. Good because games may be better developed with a target hardware in mind, bad for AMD/nVidia because of the same thing. If all (vast majority) games are made to work on that hardware there will be less progress and less sales of GPUs. This will either drive hardware prices down or up, depending on the company strategies. I'd rather see the game prices go down instead of hardware prices...

Csimbi · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:38 pm Post subject:

Another console-looking PC that nobody needs. Great.

tingtongtiaw · Contributor Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 1

While it is nice to have a Steam console, i believe it's not doing a gamer who is into mods any good as consoles tend to be centrally controlled (in this case, by Steam).

Give me good ol' PC any day.

Let's hope Steam doesn't kill its golden goose while pursuing this idea.

Kompressor · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

I'm currently beta testing this product. It's called My PC with Steam and Origin installed. The final product will be smaller and use a stripped-down version of Windows 8.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Csimbi · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject:

If not officially, I am pretty sure a jailbreak will be released withing a week after release (or, even, before).

Kompressor · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:34 pm Post subject:

I was just kidding about that. Smile

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

Majnun · Junior Member Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 235

I know portable/mobile phone/tablet gaming is the big cash cow promised land right now but I give less than 1/100th of a shit about it.

I just hope Valve is as smart as I think they are. I don't see them ignoring/neglecting the real PC market. I don't even see them hoping for some magical bullshit PC merged with mobile games lala-land like microsoft seems to think will happen.

Making things cross-platform could work...but really...dumbing shit down to 360 level is as low as I will go for real games.

Of course this will also push the mobile/tablet technology forward so maybe THOSE games won't suck goat balls. GAH, now I've confused myself. I think I'll go back to not giving a crap about anything mobile related (of course I don't even own a cell-phone so that makes it easier).

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

from the looks of it, they are making their own "alienware", nothing more.

Csimbi · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:22 am Post subject:

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2545

psolord · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:00 pm Post subject:

Gabe should cut the crap and get his team together, for Half Life 3, EP3 or whatever.