Revenge of the Steam Machine.

[Ungnome]

So Steam announced that they are bringing out a new Steam Machine, this time designed in-house.

Steam Machine

Your games on the big screen

store.steampowered.com

IF they can hit a decent price point I think they might actually be competitive in the console market this time, especially if Microsoft does try and price themselves out of the market with the next XBox, like they seem to be trying to do. They've got a huge library ready to go day one, since it essentially has all the proton-compatible steam games available out of the box, it looks nice(and even has customizable faceplates) and it can also run desktop Linux apps making it more flexible than any console since the PS3(before Sony disabled third party OS support). Maybe this will also convince a few game companies to enable their anti-cheat solutions on Linux as well.

 

[Pocket]

They already said they intend to price it comparably to any other PC of its type, rather than sell at a loss like a console, so no, basically you're just buying a PC you can't upgrade or run Windows apps on for the same cost as one you can, just for an excuse to give Valve your money. And those so inclined are even less able to afford that now than they were a decade ago. I predict this thing will be dead in the water and have zero impact on the industry.

Hyped for the new controller though. It's been way too long but at least it's going to finally exist, and I'm eager to see if they finally fixed the haptic problem. New VR headset could be a game changer too if it's competitively priced.

 

[Tm_Silverclaw]

Where is the disc drive?

Oh yeah.. I forgot.. For STEAM "FULLY DIGIITAL IS FINE!!!" For any other system "HOW DARE THEYYYYY!"

 

[Pocket]

Sure, let's stick a disc drive in the machine that literally only plays games that no one sells on disc, and hasn't in like a decade and a half.