Steam page shows 3 announcements coming

[Pocatello]

A lot of excitement over nothing.

 

[chadashcroft22]

1. the
2. steam
3. box

I am trying to not get my hopes up to high.

 

[tviceman]

I highly doubt much of anything will be subsidized. Valve's goal is to get a LOT of people making steam boxes. They don't want to be the only one, they are just spearheading it. This is similar to Nvidia releasing the shield. They're just showing what the concept will be like then letting other people take it further.

You may be right but I doubt long-term substantial success without some kind of subsidized hardware (even if Valve is buying chips straight from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel) and I highly doubt Valve will spearhead something without taking a very, very strong lead. Being private, they have no shareholders to answer to and no doubt have amassed quite a bit of cash over the past 8-9 years. So in other words, I think they can financially handle selling hardware with a small to moderate subsidized price and also subsidize partner hardware.

In one scenario, it is feasible for Valve to subsidize any steam console made by any manufacturer so long as it comes with the Linux-based steam OS and the hardware has slight changes (i.e. slot grooves for system ram and PCIe slot are slightly different than standard PC hardware) so that units cannot be stripped and sold for a profit to be used in non-steam box systems.

Regardless, they need a compelling unit at a compelling price to get decent penetration vs. the consoles.

 

[gorcorps]

Team 4tress, Left 4 Dead, H4lf Life

Port4l

 

[Crono]

1. Steambox
2. Steam for mobile (probably Ubuntu first, otherwise simultaneous release)
3. Half-Life 3

 

[nemesismk2]

Left for Dead 3 followed shortly thereafter by Left for Dead 4 :awe:

I hope so because i love playing left for dead 2

 

[Dream Operator]

A+

 

[Dream Operator]

Oh snap, it didn't quote the post before. Don't use this board much. Anyway, that was one of the best replies I've ever seen. Sorry for crapping in the thread.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm thinking Steam box is actually a PC streamer for the living room so you don't need to have a PC hooked up to the TV. A good PC streamer that comes with a controller (and works with others) could bring PC gaming to the living room in a easy way as there really aren't any good easy cheap solutions out there for the average person. Turn it on and it launches Steam on your PC and is in big picture mode.

Ever since NVIDIA announced the Shield, I've been all, "Why not bring a simple box that hooks up to the TV and allows you to stream?" NVIDIA seems rather mum on the idea, and during that time, even Sony has brought out a similar idea (PS4 instead of PC). If Valve beats them to the punch when NVIDIA practically has it done, I will just be really sad.

 

[nemesismk2]

Half Life 3 confirmed.

I've got all of the Half Life games because i love them

 

[EDUSAN]

if you think a bit about it...

a new source engine being released with HL3 as a exclusive game for steambox would be quite the SHOCK

at least, for all we 25+ people that were still gaming when HL1 was released and marked us forever

edit: does it say WHEN this announcements will be announced?

 

[tacosrcool]

Half Life 3 confirmed.

That will never happen. I mean some of us fans are willing to THROW them $$$ to release that. Too bad they don't care...

 

[gorcorps]

Ever since NVIDIA announced the Shield, I've been all, "Why not bring a simple box that hooks up to the TV and allows you to stream?" NVIDIA seems rather mum on the idea, and during that time, even Sony has brought out a similar idea (PS4 instead of PC). If Valve beats them to the punch when NVIDIA practically has it done, I will just be really sad.

Have you considered that Nvidia doesn't even WANT to get into such a market, and may just looking for a partner to move forward?

 

[smackababy]

Ever since NVIDIA announced the Shield, I've been all, "Why not bring a simple box that hooks up to the TV and allows you to stream?" NVIDIA seems rather mum on the idea, and during that time, even Sony has brought out a similar idea (PS4 instead of PC). If Valve beats them to the punch when NVIDIA practically has it done, I will just be really sad.

Nvidia did have some announcement to make that wasn't a GPU, so it could be a partner ship with Steam to use their technology to stream in the Steambox.

 

[robvp]

10 minutes

 

[slpdLoad]

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

 

[Saffron]

Now 48 Hours until next announcement.

 

[Red Storm]

Access to all existing games via LAN streaming. Just as I thought.

 

[flexy]

I don't need an effing "SteamOS" to play on the big screen.

All it needs is a cable for $0.50.

 

[Red Storm]

I don't need an effing "SteamOS" to play on the big screen.

All it needs is a cable for $0.50.

And a Windows license.

 

[robvp]

people with htpcs could now game on their living room via steamOS i guess

 

[darkewaffle]

Meh, underwhelming personally. I feel like it needs an accompanying hardware solution to be compelling in some way. Even then it's going to have the same problem that, say, Win Phone has in that people are going to complain it lacks 'apps'. I really am not interested in installing a new OS and likely losing access to the codecs/browsers/tools/programs/etc that I use regularly in addition to 'games' on my PCs.

Though I suppose it's intended to be more of a console analogue, so maybe I'm not part of the target market.

 

[Red Storm]

Yeah they keep mentioning living room, so I think this is supposed to essentially be a console for PC games.

 

[Nintendesert]

And a Windows license.

OH jeez where would I find one of those?!

 

[Nintendesert]

Now if Valve is smart, the last announcement will be HL3 to sell all this other BS they are trying to push.