| Cobretti2 said: steam OS specific games. I wonder what that will give them. If its the games PCs miss out on plus access to your steam library then the steam box isn't looking too bad right about now even if its on par or slightly below PS4. Plus I have no doubt they will probably have a more expensive model that is better than PS4 and the games designed for it will auto select features based on model number kind of like games can already select settings manually depending on their pc specs but done automatically. |
Sounds more like this is just splitting the PC gaming market into Windows and Linux.
Not sure how this brings more games that wouldn't have been made for Windows previously (in the absense of Steambox).
All this is is about creating a 'new' PC gaming OS (really just Linux, with new focus/promotion) similar to how PC OS' have been competitive before
(MacOS, Atari, etc), with this one happening to offer better performance than Windows and lower cost (vs. $50 licence fee for Windows to OEMs)
It's not about "will" there ALREADY ARE (announced) higher spec Steamboxes that cost more, that in fact were announced before this one.
These are not all being made by one company, it is many OEMs, so more or less the same situation as with Windows PC gaming.
by all accounts there will likely be HUNDREDS of models of Steambox, so it is doubtful that each game publisher will make a custom settings profile for each specific rig, leaving the situation identical to Windows PC gaming.
Querying the GPU and CPU should be possible to some extent, but that is no different than for Windows PC gaming, so expect custom settings to remain.
