Goodbye Steambox, hello Steam Machines.

[Munkeh111]

pezus said:

Munkeh111 said:
Sounds basically pointless. I guess it will make the PCs cheaper by removing the cost of a Windows license, but other than that, without a set standard it is going to have the same issues that you would expect from PC gaming

I also don't think that most games will work on it, they have said a couple of hundred will work, but the rest will have to be streamed from a proper PC, so it will work best as a companion to an actual gaming PC. I'll take a console instead

If this were any other company than Valve, this would be immediately shot down as nonsense, I don't really see this going anywhere

"What games will be available during the beta?

The nearly 3,000 games on Steam. Hundreds already running natively on the SteamOS, with more to come. The rest will work seamlessly via in-home streaming."

You can be sure that they will keep adding games at an even faster rate now when the OS comes out. 

It's not pointless at all, because it streamlines the PC into something that is designed for gaming, on an OS that is also designed for gaming. This will get gamers to stop buying Windows only because they need to and get Steam OS instead.

Right, but the figure is currently in the hundreds, I don't have a huge amount of faith in every game I want running through this.

Sure the PC is designed for gaming, but why not pay a bit extra and get one that can do everything. I would much rather the more open solution of Windows (assuming they don't remove the desktop in Windows 9) where I can fiddle with what I want, rather than rely on things designed for Steam OS