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richardhutnik on 25 September 2013
ethomaz said:
kowenicki said:
So... no standard specs, lots of different machines / different power? Some will be in direct competition with PS4/ONE then?

Yeah... AMD and nVidia already supporting the ideia... so difference GPUs inside the machines too.

It is more like any manufacture can build a SteamMachine... the requeriment is they use the SteamOS.

It is like... hummm... the PC is today

Somewhere actually between PC and Android I believe.  The SteamOS and Steam Machines should be Linux based, so people who have been staying "PCs" for this, unless they mean "Personal Computers", aren't quite correct.  



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Bladeforce on 25 September 2013

xbone & ps4 obsolete ideas before launch confirmed. Valve are doing to Microsoft gaming what google did to microsoft with tablets/phones. Fantastic!



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crissindahouse on 25 September 2013

if almost all pc games will work for linux i see this as a possible big success since many gamers have their pc really only for gaming and interent/movies but as long as many games will only run on windows i don't see how gamers will jump to linux.

i'm sure valve will work hard on this with all their partners and amd will also do something if i understood a tweet correct but right now there is just too much stuff gamers will "need" windows for.



Mohasus on 25 September 2013
JEMC said:

I'm surprised that so many believed that Valve would launch "A" or "THE" SteamBox Machine. They are a software Co., it didn't made sense for them to become a hardware maker.

For me, the thing that may become more problematic with their plan is GPU drivers. Sure, that's AMD and Nvidia's job and I'm sure they will take care of it, and sure PC gamers are used to upgrade the drivers, but if Valve really wants to introduce the mass market to PC gaming they need to find a way to solve the drivers upgrades easily.

So far Steam gives you the option to check and download new drivers from AMD. I tried it once, it was a disaster.


When I used Ubuntu, the thing would notify as soon as I logged on to say "there is a new driver, click if you want to install".



GamechaserBE on 25 September 2013

I don't dig the name ^^'.



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ethomaz on 25 September 2013

richardhutnik said:

Somewhere actually between PC and Android I believe.  The SteamOS and Steam Machines should be Linux based, so people who have been staying "PCs" for this, unless they mean "Personal Computers", aren't quite correct.

I didn't understand what you said... PC uses Linux too.

StreamMachine is a PC with SteamOS.



Mohasus on 25 September 2013

Btw, people are saying this might be related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfmM6QYWNM



richardhutnik on 25 September 2013

So, I am seeing a number things that can likely happen here due to SteamOS and Steam Machines:
* Linux gets much improved driver support.
* Linux gets a bunch more games, and other software. Valve is likely going to push, big time, that guys making PC games also do ports for SteamOS. With this also, the PC market was likely also to pick up more games done for the ONE and PS4. So, I see Valve will get the games companies are working on, also for SteamOS and the Steam Machines.
* Linux gets in the living room in a bigger way.
* Android gets a competitor in the microconsole arena with SteamOS.

This is a potential game changer here. What it is not is Valve releasing their own console, so the whole Steambox thing falls to the wayside.



JEMC on 25 September 2013
Mohasus said:
JEMC said:

I'm surprised that so many believed that Valve would launch "A" or "THE" SteamBox Machine. They are a software Co., it didn't made sense for them to become a hardware maker.

For me, the thing that may become more problematic with their plan is GPU drivers. Sure, that's AMD and Nvidia's job and I'm sure they will take care of it, and sure PC gamers are used to upgrade the drivers, but if Valve really wants to introduce the mass market to PC gaming they need to find a way to solve the drivers upgrades easily.

So far Steam gives you the option to check and download new drivers from AMD. I tried it once, it was a disaster.


When I used Ubuntu, the thing would notify as soon as I logged on to say "there is a new driver, click if you want to install".

Really?Did you had to set it up or the OS does it by itself?

In any case, that would help a lot.



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Mohasus on 25 September 2013
JEMC said:
Mohasus said:
JEMC said:

I'm surprised that so many believed that Valve would launch "A" or "THE" SteamBox Machine. They are a software Co., it didn't made sense for them to become a hardware maker.

For me, the thing that may become more problematic with their plan is GPU drivers. Sure, that's AMD and Nvidia's job and I'm sure they will take care of it, and sure PC gamers are used to upgrade the drivers, but if Valve really wants to introduce the mass market to PC gaming they need to find a way to solve the drivers upgrades easily.

So far Steam gives you the option to check and download new drivers from AMD. I tried it once, it was a disaster.


When I used Ubuntu, the thing would notify as soon as I logged on to say "there is a new driver, click if you want to install".

Really?Did you had to set it up or the OS does it by itself?

In any case, that would help a lot.

Automatically, clicking on the notification would bring me to this: