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CES 2014 Steam Hardware (and Software?) Partners - Updates in the OP
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Mango Positive
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Interfectum
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We could very easily see an announcement of L4D3 or HL3 being Steam exclusive (Win/Mac/Linux/SteamOS) at CES or sometime this year. Bookmark this.
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Was too busy celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Far Cry, the best shooter released in 2004.
Digital Storm is "taking aim at the high end of the market, targeting consumers that demand the best possible gaming experience and who are looking for a PC capable of playing any title on their new 4K display.”
The same. A push towards small form factors, reducing noise and keeping PC power as much as possible is something I've wanted for a long time. Streaming machines is something the PC market will love
The same. A push towards small form factors, reducing noise and keeping PC power as much as possible is something I've wanted for a long time. Streaming machines is something the PC market will love
It's certainly the thing that I'm looking forward to the most. If someone could build something small at a reasonable price, I think it would sell remarkably well.
Also, thanks for the updates. I probably won't be commenting much, but it's nice to have this all in one place.
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You can install whatever you want, Windows included.
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The architecture is simply a PC. You can install whatever you could normally install on a custom built PC.
Yes you can. Building one yourself will always be cheaper but if you are not able to do that, these are good solution and there are more to be announced. Windows will certainly help you enjoy the machine and play titles yet to reach steamos but given a couple of years you'll probably find most games you want will also be on steamos. Also most games for linux/steamos use steamplay, so buy it once and enjoy it on mac, windows and linux/steamos
It's not like it's limited to the console library, or the games on it will only be good for five years. There are people out there that pay ridiculous prices for stuff from Digital Storm, Falcon NW, Alienware etc... because they either don't know any better or don't care about the cost.
I expect to see quite a few 'enthusiast' level Steam Machines. Whether or not that makes the marketing around these boxes more murky is a valid question. My hope was that we'd see some killer small form factor builds from $500-1000 but it still seems as though these are all early in development.
ashecitism
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Nzyme, this might make your updating easier: http://steamdb.info/blog/39/
TouchMyBox
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Is it hobbyist retail or something more mainstream?
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I'm glad there are several other people on GAF excited about Steam Machines, too. I thought I'd be in the vast minority here.
Even if you can build a cheaper rig yourself, the benefits of SMs being popular are huge. More exposure to PC gaming, smaller form factors, lower power use, increased competition. It'll push Sony and MS, too. It's just an all around fantastic venture.
Even if you can build a cheaper rig yourself, the benefits of SMs being popular are huge. More exposure to PC gaming, smaller form factors, lower power use, increased competition. It'll push Sony and MS, too. It's just an all around fantastic venture.
London Drugs
Thanks it's appreciated! I figured that although we have live blogs for the conference, the rest of the week might be trickier to follow and rumour has it that there are more announcements to come tomorrow as well as today
Event starts in a few minutes Here is a link to Ars Technica's Blog & The Verge's live blog
The most organised updates will be appearing over at SteamDB's blog throughout the week so I may just give up on adding anything unless it isn't mentioned anywhere. There are also other threads that are more active such as this one
Enjoy!
Ars Technica is updating much more frequently than the Verge is
Ars: http://live.arstechnica.com/liveblog-valves-ces-press-conference/
Verge: http://live.theverge.com/valve-ces-2014-press-event-live-blog/
Ars: http://live.arstechnica.com/liveblog-valves-ces-press-conference/
Verge: http://live.theverge.com/valve-ces-2014-press-event-live-blog/
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A "transitional feature" is not what I would call it. I think it's a fantastic feature that I would take advantage of even if every game on Steam ran in Linux.
A "transitional feature" is not what I would call it. I think it's a fantastic feature that I would take advantage of even if every game on Steam ran in Linux.
A streaming device would slow the adoption of Linux. Really not in the best interests of SteamOS until their initiatives on that front have some traction.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/dice-linux-needs-one-killer-app-to-take-off/0184478
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