Goodbye Steambox, hello Steam Machines.

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Dark_Feanor said:

pezus said:

Dark_Feanor said:
This is a bold (desperated??) move from Valve to save PC gaming.

They will change so the things stays the same. Many hardware configuations, yearly upgrades, customisation...

Sorry, I can´t see a game changer. Not in the big market, not in mass production and advertising. May be if NVidia joins in. Or Samsung or LG.

Save PC gaming? Lol, you must be joking

No, I´m not.

If the PC market is OK, and with growing perspective in sight, why the hell Valve is trying this?

Why Microsoft has the Xbox and Surface in the first place?  PC gaming is a nicht market, for enthusiasts. 

I´m speaking for me: this year is the last year a will use PC other than working (and may be porn). I will finish the last 10 games I bought at Steam Store. And I won´t ever buy a game that I could not play right away. 

Microsoft or Sony will have to screw up really bad in pricing and services for me to quite the convenience of a console + a tablet.

Your opinion doesn't equate to market reality or everybody else.

PC gaming is also not a niche market only for enthusiasts, one of the best selling franchises (The Sims) has 150 million copies sold, Diablo 3 PC has outsold the console versions, Minecraft has outsold the console versions, there are 50+ million people who use Steam, 30+ million who use Origin, 10's of million of people a day play League of Legends and Dota 2.
The PC gaming Market is also 20 Billion bucks large, the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 combined is 15.5 Billion bucks.

The SteamOS has the potential to be stupidly massive, if and I must stress the if... The hardware manufacturers get behind it.

Imagine every device you own and they all have one thing in common: SteamOS.
You could then have a singular powerfull Desktop that does all the rendering of your games at superior levels of image quality than any other platform could possibly hope to achieve and stream it to any device in your home.
The potential there is stupidly massive, if a phone manufacturer decides to include SteamOS? then your phone could have the power of a Desktop PC (Like mine!) in a device that fits into your hand, playing games with better image quality than the next generation, current generation, previous generation and even the generation before that consoles combined rendering power.

The advantage of this approach is... You don't need a powerfull or expensive console, phone or tablet for improvements in graphics fidelity for your games.
Heck, you could mod an Origional Xbox, potentially throw SteamOS on it and play games with better image quality than the Playstation 4, that's the kind of potential that SteamOS can bring to the gaming market.
Could you imagine never having to need to buy another Console again? Or a better Tablet to keep up with new games?

Whether Valve will be successfull or not still remains to be seen, but it certainly has the potential to completely change the entire gaming industry.