Will Steam Box determine Nvidia's GPU fate?

[StrangerGuy]

You don't even understand what "the" "Steam box" is. How can anyone respond to you further in a logical and rational manner when you refuse to acknowledge that your base understanding of the whole issue is wrong.

You're also making one massive assumption that has no evidence.
That "the" "Steam box" will be relevant to the PC gaming market. There is no evidence to suggest it will be.
In this instance I am personally defining a Steam Box as a Linux based PC running Steam.
And there is no Linux gaming right now, and that will have to get traction, along with a very affordably priced gaming system, to go anywhere, otherwise people will just buy a Windows based gaming PC that runs Steam (aka another form of "Steam box".)

The Linux Steam Box can only have relevance or impact if people buy it.
Most people wouldn't buy it, based on what's been indicated so far (that it's not even SUPPOSED to be for everyone to buy... per Gabe N, only for some people, with other choices, aka regular gaming PCs running Steam, being the option for other people, those other people being people who actually want to play games).

Just because growth of PC shipments is shrinking doesn't mean the same consumers are going to settle for a cheaper and far less capable box. Which makes even less sense for the latter when PCs now are so cheap to the point of disposable.

 

[Dark Shroud]

Just to make a note of something Xi3 systems use AMD chips for their systems.