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zarx said:

JEMC said:

Steam Machines delayed until 2015: Controller redesigned again!

http://gadgetshow.channel5.com/gadget-show/gadget-news/steam-machines-delayed-until-2015-controller-redesigned-again

 

Basically, the controller need to be redesigned again (what will they get rid off this time?) and the whole thing gets delayed. Oh well, more time to finish Half Life 3 for its launch!

It also means that they give developers more time to port games over to Linux. They are starting to pick up higher profile titles that are including SteamOS/SteamMachine branding, which is very important if they want these machines to be a success outside of as streaming boxes.

 

 

I don't think many of the high profile old games will use this extra time to make the transition to Linux. And the ones that are yet to come, either support it already from the start or will take more time than that delay to get ported to it.

Besides, we still don't know when of 2015 the controller and systems will be launched. It could be either March or November, to say the extremes, so it wil have little impact on this current gen of consoles. Maybe by the next one it can be a thread, but now it's almost game over.