Goodbye Steambox, hello Steam Machines.

[JEMC]

Mohasus said:

JEMC said:

I'm surprised that so many believed that Valve would launch "A" or "THE" SteamBox Machine. They are a software Co., it didn't made sense for them to become a hardware maker.

For me, the thing that may become more problematic with their plan is GPU drivers. Sure, that's AMD and Nvidia's job and I'm sure they will take care of it, and sure PC gamers are used to upgrade the drivers, but if Valve really wants to introduce the mass market to PC gaming they need to find a way to solve the drivers upgrades easily.

So far Steam gives you the option to check and download new drivers from AMD. I tried it once, it was a disaster.

When I used Ubuntu, the thing would notify as soon as I logged on to say "there is a new driver, click if you want to install".

Really?Did you had to set it up or the OS does it by itself?

In any case, that would help a lot.