http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1003636

Apparently the Steam consoles/machines will launch this fall in a dozen different configs and will be more powerful than the PS4/X1 "for the same price". 

Welp. 

If they're under $400 ... I'm in. Steam library poops all over the PS4/X1 libraries, especially if you can run emulators of retro platforms too. They showed Unreal Tournament running at 4K resolution too apparently. 

will the steam machine library be all that great? i though steam machines run on liniux and like almost all of steam's library doesn't.

i imagine valve makes it easy for new games to get ported over but i'll bet most of the back-library doesn't.

First, that's illegal. Second, if you want that, just get a PC? Wait, they are PCs. :P

Yet, I'd be surprised if they weren't more powerful, I mean 2 years after the PS4/Xbone were released, I expect any new console released to be more powerful.

I wish them luck in their endeavour though.

Same power on paper but due to inferior API not as strong.

every PC mid range is more powerfull than ps4/xbone, so this steam machine for $399 was expected, on top of that steam has a huge library of games, if this machine can run everything on max settings (not ultra) is going to blow ps4/xbone out of the water :3

Sounds pretty cool. May get one later on down the road, but I have a small Steam library

I am more interested in Steam Link, the $50 micro console for home streaming from your PC. Your whole steam library will work that way.

Still not interested.

I haven't used their controller myself but I very much doubt it holds a patch on kb/mouse so if you're into Multiplayer Shooters or Strategy games it's probably not for you. Hell i'm not even sure what it'd be like playing a singleplayer RTS game. I mean you could always just plug a kb/mouse into it but that kind of defeats the purpose of it being a console like pc.

Hopefully you can install Windows on it and it's not locked to SteamOS but you'd probably be much better off just building an actual PC yourself and you'd probably get it a lot cheaper.

There's just something about console gaming that relegates my Gaming PC to only playing games that are either exclusives or horrendously bad performance wise on consoles. (Farcry 3)

Might be interested if it ends up running any game on Steam.