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Soleron on 06 January 2013
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DirtyP2002 said:
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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.

No, PCs do NOT offer that. You have to spend hours researching, you have to accept overpriced and underspecced shit from OEMs or waste time building yourself, you have to worry whether the thing will play the games you want at the resolution/settings you want (why do we get so many computer help threads, if it's so easy?) and there can be subtle incompatibilities between components and with software that people do not want to take the time to figure out.

Consoles avert this problem but we are talking about currently PC-only games here.

You can still use a keyboard with the TV. But I think people want to play the GAMES, not the CONTROL METHOD, and therefore any way that simplifies bringing those titles to people will sell well. That includes console ports, IF console had the social and update features people like from Steam (which they won't), or this kind of thing. 

I also think people will buy the Steambox and connect it to a PC monitor. They value buying convenience but they won't conform to Valve's idea of how the product is used.

Current PCs are only easy for the most knowledgable users, and current consoles lack Steam's library and its most used features. Valve can fix either problem to make money.