| disolitude said: I see many issues with Valves approach here but the main 2 are: 1. Why would I dedicate a minimum of 500 dollars of PC equipment to run a Steam Machine, when all it does is play games? It doesn't steam Plex, do netflix, youtube or other popular apps(yet) or even have a file manager for media. Some of these things are coming but I'd rather have a 500 dollar PC connected to my TV that does everything a Steambox does, and a whole lot more as well. 2. Why would I dedicate a minimum of 500 dollars for a gaming machine when next gen consoles are the same price or less? They will get much more support and games than a Linux based SteamBox. |
I really like the push it will give to Linux gaming (well, Metro LL is already remarkable), but I agree it will bomb pretty hard. Besides that, Steam's main public is basically people that already have good PCs and good GPUs, so grabbing an entire new device with less compatible games is a hard sell.
