| kowenicki said: Steambox will be a relative flop. its counterintuitive to the concept of pc gaming and the make up of many pc gamers. Who love bangin' on about their "rigs". |
Steambox is not a single homogenous platform, it's basically a spec to run the same (Linux) OS as well the spec for the controller.
There's already several different specc'd Steambox 'consoles', with different CPUs and GPUs by different manufacturers.
AFAIK, there's no reason why one couldn't even replace some components, e.g. with a GPU swap. They're basically just Linux PCs.
So whether one chooses to game via Windows or via Steam Linux boxes is not much difference, there will still be 'rig' bragging.
This has repurcussions for platform optimization as I already wrote, it is not like MS/Sony consoles, it is basically no different than Windows gaming PCs,
except with a different operating system, it's own controller spec, and of course the Steam service which also applies to Windows games.
Although most Steambox's DON'T, a manufacturer COULD hypothetically make a Steambox with unified memory architecture (all GDDR) like PS4,
except there wouldn't be much point because the platform fragmentation would mean no game would optimize around that to take advantage.
