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BenVTrigger said:

kowenicki said:

BenVTrigger said:
This will have very little effect on Xbox One games, as consoles already have incredibly low level access.

PC however will see some pretty incredible gains from this if it delivers how they advertised it.

steam box killer?

Actually yes this is quite a huge blow to Valves whole Steambox / Steam OS gameplan. One of the big selling points of Steam OS was essentially turning PC's into a console like environment to take strain off of hardware.  DX12 is doing exactly that and looking at some of the slides on how it optimizes across CPU cores and actually can free up GPU processing I don't see too much reason to ever have Steam OS.  And I LOVE me some Steam.

Honestly I'm pretty confused why Steam is even doing the whole Steam OS / Steambox gameplan. It really makes very little sense.

I'm with you there too.  It's sort of like making people buy new cars to go on new freeways because you don't like the current ones.  Come travel on our steam powered freeways they cry!  But we already have more that will go to all sorts of places, the people respond.  But ours are somehow different?  But the people respond, I can by ones that can travel for games, but also be used for other things, I think those are better.

Another thing this will do keep DirectX 12 as a lead platform.  So companies can still develop and use their years of experiences on DirectX for Xbox, Tablet and PC (even phone if they want.)  While SteamOS will have to work hard to try to get people to switch to their new platform.

As far as Xbox One, I’m sure we will see some improvements.  Just look at the development of Xbox 360 launch games, to the ones today.  They look a generation better.  Even a modest improvement would be good.