Oh I see, you're one of those odd "no one should have an opinion you don't agree with" types who gets all emotional, that's Ok, I get it now. SteamOS still sounds like it's just a fairly pointless plan to tie PC gamers into Steam to me, I've said I may be missing something and stated my reasons. You on the other hand have just had a bit of a hissy fit *shrug* No need to get all defensive and upset about it. Gabe, that's not you is it Gabe?
Against my better judgement I guess I'll chip in again.
No, I'm not one of those. If you look back over the posts, you said you can't see why anyone would use it (claiming that Valve must think their customers are all gullible). I gave an example of someone (me) who does actually have a use for it.
You ignored that, called me "Gabe's love child" and a fan boy and restated that nobody could possibly have a use for Steam OS.
Perhaps we can just put the childish name calling to one side and get back on topic. Truce?
True enough although I'm not sure that's where Valve sees SteamOS. For it to be worth while they want people to buy SteamOS versions of games which leaves you having to have a fairly decent and expensive gaming PC under the TV, hence the whole Steambox thing. If you're going to spend £500 on something to go under the TV to play games locked in with DRM to one supplier wouldn't you just buy a console?
If you already have a windows PC and a media PC under the TV though I can see the streaming tech might be a bit of fun and fundamentally free so why not
The "If you're going to spend £500 on something to go under the TV to play games locked in with DRM to one supplier wouldn't you just buy a console?" Hits the nail on the head - the Steam Box appears to be designed for exactly that market - it's instead of a console, but not (IMO) for someone with no existing PC gaming presence in their house.
Obviously, if you have no existing gaming PC and on the reasonable assumption that games have to be developed for SteamOS natively (i.e. it's not just going to play any PC game out of the box) then sure, you're buying a console with fewer games and less developer support than XBone/PS4, but I don't see that as the target audience for the device.
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Anyone know if there's a Beta to sign up for? Wouldn't mind trying this.
Yep - there was a thread called "steam reveal" somewhere in this forum that had links to the SteamOS/SteamBox/Steam controller pages, which should have the details. I seem to recall you had to join a Steam group for a chance to take part - that might just be for the hardware beta test but I think it included SteamOS too.
Will be less clunky than Windows, more efficient and actually optimised for gaming as opposed to that DX lark. It's such a big ask though, interested to see what they come out with, massive job, but if anyone can do it . . .
