It's not hard to imagine the attraction of fixing the one with the Titan in it, to the wall mount holes on the rear of a 42" + TV.

The price tag and missing exclusives are downsides though.

In reply to a post by kamelion:

I dont see the point of the steambox. If people want to use steams big box feature they can just build a small form factor pc using a mini itx board. or even get a shuttle.

Yes they could do that. This is just another option available and not everyone wants to build their own system. If they make these Steamboxes look really cool and the gamepad is good then they could be popular. Theres a lot of BUTs at the moment.

As I have said before the most exciting thing for me about this is that Valve will be using their own OS SteamOS which is based on Linux, they have declared war on Microsoft, if they succeed this could take away their dominance of PC gaming.

When has Microsoft ever had dominance in PC gaming ?

Aside from Halo 1, the half-hearted Halo 2, Midtown Madness and Motocross game, Microsoft's attitude to games used to be "Games ? What are they ?", although nowadays its more a case of "Games ? Buy an XBox, or a Windows Mobile device instead"

What I meant was their dominance of the operating system needed to play the majority of games on PC's. If Valve can successfully bring games to SteamOS and others follow then you no longer need Microsoft Windows.

What games are going to come to SteamOS other then Valves own games but even then they wont be exclusives as they will still be launched on Windows as thats steams biggest OS on their client base.

It will be interesting to see how well the steamOS does, we will just have to wait and see as i dont believe windows will no longer be needed.

Are you forgetting DirectX?

Valve will need to have all of the games available on Steam working on SteamOS otherwise their Steambox will be useless.

Edited by astateoftrance (Mon 07-Oct-13 16:46:08)

Ah, yes - who can forget that COM based mess ?

By the sound of it though, a PC will be needed - which does make it all pointless...

Unless, of course, they go for Windows emulation (WINE) which is going to cause even more problems...

If not, then how are they going to get publishers to convert their games to Linux ?

It is all rather vague...

Yeah it needs to be all games running natively under steamOS otherwise it's a joke. No idea how they will do it but it's how it needs to be for them to have a chance

Edited by astateoftrance (Tue 08-Oct-13 09:14:19)