Valve announces SteamOS

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Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room?
If you want. But Steam and SteamOS work well with gamepads, too. Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.
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Oculus Rift or Valve's equivalent of it confirmed !
 
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wsippel said:
The Wii U GamePad does have buttons on the back - the triggers. Triggers and bumpers are organized in such a way that you can comfortably rest your middle fingers on the triggers and the index fingers on the bumpers when playing dual analog games.
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reason for scuf controllers is that it gives u an extra set of buttons so u wouldnt need to let go of the right analogue to hit the jump/reload etc button
 
Taco_Human said:
Just submitted my beta application. oh I hope I hope I hope!
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I considered it for half a second. But...that'd require buying a controller, getting more friends (I know I'm sad!), and doing stuff, all to compete against tens of thousands for one of 300 spots.
 
potam said:
I considered it for half a second. But...that'd require buying a controller, getting more friends (I know I'm sad!), and doing stuff, all to compete against tens of thousands for one of 300 spots.
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You don't have a ps3 or 360 controller laying around? Bummer. Besides that, the only thing you need to do is play on big picture mode with a controller. That's not much.
 
EVIL said:
I am not doubting that they are working on a controller. Just the example posted is not fixing the issues that neer fixing toch be usable for a steambox. Paddles on the back, who cares, you need a trackball or something.
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who cares?


a lotta lotta lotta of console gamers, thats who
 
todd360 said:
No picture of prototype is super disappointing. Thats all I really wanted to see.
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Yeah, I was hoping for a targeted spec/price. Something vague at least. TELL ME WHY I WANT A STEAMBOX, VALVE

Taco_Human said:
You don't have a ps3 or 360 controller laying around? Bummer. Besides that, the only thing you need to do is play on big picture mode with a controller. That's not much.
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I don't want to go through the trouble of getting my PS3 controller working with Steam/Windows, all for a nonexistent shot at getting some hardware that I honestly won't use.
 
The third announcement clock looks like it will be just a combination of the last two announcements, it has the two circles with a plus sing between them...
 
On the Steam Machine page, but definitely relevant to SteamOS (and very cool news):

Can I download the OS to try it out?
You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that) but not yet.
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hellocld said:
On the Steam Machine page, but definitely relevant to SteamOS (and very cool news):
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They are legally obligated to make any GPL code and modifications available. If you think this means they are releasing the source code for Steam itself, I think you will be disappointed.
 
Posted in other thread but it's getting lost.

Someone explain the streaming to me, when you play a game not natively supported by SteamOS and you decide to stream it, which hardware runs the game? Your PC, or the box running SteamOS?

I have a Macbook, if I stream to a Steam Box would the steambox run the game on its hardware or would it be running on the mac and just streaming to the steambox?

Hopefully it's the first option...
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Posted in other thread but it's getting lost.

Someone explain the streaming to me, when you play a game not natively supported by SteamOS and you decide to stream it, which hardware runs the game? Your PC, or the box running SteamOS?

I have a Macbook, if I stream to a Steam Box would the steambox run the game on its hardware or would it be running on the mac and just streaming to the steambox?

Hopefully it's the first option...
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The later.
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Posted in other thread but it's getting lost.

Someone explain the streaming to me, when you play a game not natively supported by SteamOS and you decide to stream it, which hardware runs the game? Your PC, or the box running SteamOS?

I have a Macbook, if I stream to a Steam Box would the steambox run the game on its hardware or would it be running on the mac and just streaming to the steambox?

Hopefully it's the first option...
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As I understand it it's your PC that runs the game and streams it over to the box that's using SteamOS.
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Posted in other thread but it's getting lost.

Someone explain the streaming to me, when you play a game not natively supported by SteamOS and you decide to stream it, which hardware runs the game? Your PC, or the box running SteamOS?

I have a Macbook, if I stream to a Steam Box would the steambox run the game on its hardware or would it be running on the mac and just streaming to the steambox?

Hopefully it's the first option...
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The Streaming option will have your PC running the game and streaming video to the SteamBox. It's a solution to play the majority of the Steam library that is Windows only and to create a very low end low price option.
 
RulkezX said:
The later.
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HarryDemeanor said:
As I understand it it's your PC that runs the game and streams it over to the box that's using SteamOS.
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Felix Lighter said:
The Streaming option will have your PC running the game and streaming video to the SteamBox. It's a solution to play the majority of the Steam library that is Windows only.
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Ah, well dammit. That doesn't help people without a dedicated gaming PC at all. I wonder how easy it'd be to patch in SteamOS (linux) support for old games.
 
Stringing this announcement out over a week is looking really fucking stupid. There is barely anything to announce. What the hell were they thinking?
 
OldAsUrSock said:
I think Valve is doing just fine hyping things up. Just look at how many posts are in this thread.
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A lot of which is empty speculation based on pretty much nothing, complaints that they aren't showing anything or that this isn't really meant for them and reasons why, or three word meme posts.

Compared to almost every other hardware thread save for maybe nvidia shield, these threads are moving along somewhat glacially.
 
"Can I hack this box? Run another OS? Change the hardware? Install my own software? Use it to build a robot?"
"Sure."

So I could put Windows on it if I need to and run Steam there and play the games that aren't going to work under the SteamOS? (Because I doubt every single game will be updated to run on this. A huge chunk of my games don't even have Mac versions.)

They should make a Wii U GamePad-style Steam Machine/controller that either is all in one inside the controller, or allows for streaming directly to it like the Wii U does. That would be amazing.
 
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