Pemalite said:
adriane23 said:
If it's not cheaper than me building my own PC with the same specs, I don't see a reason for getting one. |
It's not meant as a PC replacement.
Years ago, the idea was that people would no longer have stupidly fast PC's, but instead a singular PC that did all the heafty lifting and allot of clients.
This is another take on that idea.
Essentially, my Desktop (Which is more than capable of running multiple AAA games @ 1080P) will do all the processing and stream it to the Steam box.
nVidia's Shield is another take on this idea, where the PC will do all the processing and display it on the shield device.
Thus, in theory you should never need to upgrade the Steam Box or nVidia Shield device, only the one machine that does all the heavy lifting, I've actually taken this concept but use it for movies and television shows where my PC transcodes all the video on the fly and sends it to all the different devices in my home, be it the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Windows Phone and such.
http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/
Just think on that potential for a bit.
Imagine you had the origional Xbox, you could mod it, install Linux and then use your PC to do all the heavy lifting which allows the console to display games that even puts the Xbox 360 to shame, image quality wise.
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To summarize, it will be a pointless add-on that makes little to no sense to purchase save for an extremely niche audience. I'll need to look into Steam Box deeper, but it sounds like a terrible venture.
