The Steambox will fail - Here are the reasons.

[DirtyP2002]

Soleron said:

DirtyP2002 said:

pezus said:
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Okay, why should I buy a gaming PC that can't be upgraded and requires to run Linux on it? I mean if you look at gaming PCs, there is a huge variety to choose from. Samsung, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, IBM etc.

They are all seriously overpriced and some of them still aren't that good.

If there was a box people could trust to play all the games they want to play, no research required and for reasonable cost, isn't that what people want out of a gaming PC?

Upgrading a PC is something that a tiny fraction of the market care about or would want to do. Anyone who's into that isn't part of Valve's intended market.

Yeah, but every PC and every console offer exactly that. And most of the PC games on steam are designed for... wait for it... the PC! So some sort of controller would be required, which would automatically kill a big part of the PC gaming fanbase they have experienced with for the past years. And going after the console gaming fanbase means going head to head with MS, Sony and Nintendo and I don't see Valve having the resources for this.