Game developers are fascinated by SteamOS and Steambox. Death of consoles ?

All the game developers stood fascinated by SteamOS and Steambox.

PC Gaming: Greatness Awaits :P

Game developers reaction to Valve announcements

Markus Persson         @notch

Valve is saving the entire gaming world, but I all I can do is mumble passive aggressively about crowbars. 

Cliff Bleszinski         @therealcliffyb

In other news Valve continues to do whatever the hell they want. Awesome.

Brian Fargo @BrianFargo

Vallve's Steam OS Isn't Competition For Xbox One and PS4...Yet

http://onforb.es/1bBAOrc  Here comes Steam TV...

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How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

Nocharizard1605

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

lilnazar

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

Death of consoles? No. 

[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

jhonMalcovich

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

It's a console.

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[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

StrongBlackVine

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

It's a console.

Pre-built PC. :evil:

that's only 3 people, and isn't Cliffy B retired?

[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

jhonMalcovich

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

that's only 3 people, and isn't Cliffy B retired?

lostrib

Open the link. I only posted a sample.

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that's only 3 people, and isn't Cliffy B retired?

jhonMalcovich

Open the link. I only posted a sample.

Death of consoles? I donno.

What Valve is doing is bringing an open environment to the world of consoles which is awesome, and it'll certainly change how Sony and MS think in regards to their consoles (assuming it's popular)

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[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

lilnazar

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

I am not stating anything. I am just asking you if they will :roll:

wouldn't surprise me if consoles want to move more towards streaming games, like gaikai

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[QUOTE="lostrib"]

that's only 3 people, and isn't Cliffy B retired?

lowe0

Open the link. I only posted a sample.

Facepalm. Open the link "Game developers reaction to Valve announcements" 

valve is trying to make the push to make PC gaming more assessable. Their OS is free, If their claim that their OS can increase performance over windows is true = awesome 

it all comes down to can valve push devise to make it work? 

I dont understand steambox. 

Isnt it cheaper/easier/better to build my own tower and hook it up to my tv? 

wouldn't surprise me if consoles want to move more towards streaming games, like gaikai

lostrib

Most of world's internet is far too slow for that. May far into the future.

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wouldn't surprise me if consoles want to move more towards streaming games, like gaikai

StrongBlackVine

Most of world's internet is far too slow for that. May far into the future.

well they have like 8 years, and they're already testing it out with gaikai

Consoles are finished. Tears of consolites incoming.

Delicious.

I dont understand steambox. 

 

Isnt it cheaper/easier/better to build my own tower and hook it up to my tv? 

Evo_nine

Probably, but do you realize how many people buy pre-built computers every year from places like Walmart or Best Buy? 

Valve wants to put a certified gaming/media PC right next to those PCs, and hope that the same type of consumer finds interest in it.

It's not as if Valve is only targetting the hardcore PC enthusiast crowd. 

Consoles are finished. Tears of consolites incoming.

 

Delicious.

EducatingU_PCMR

probably not

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I dont understand steambox. 

 

Isnt it cheaper/easier/better to build my own tower and hook it up to my tv? 

treedoor

Probably, but do you realize how many people buy pre-built computers every year from places like Walmart or Best Buy? 

Valve wants to put a certified gaming/media PC right next to those PCs, and hope that the same type of consumer finds interest in it.

It's not as if Valve is only targetting the hardcore PC enthusiast crowd. 

[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

jhonMalcovich

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

That encourages the use of gamepads. Totally different guys.

Occasionally I am fascinated by things like: how did that dog crap get on my shoe? It doesn't mean that my fascination is going to lead to anything.

Notch and CliffyB? Really?

Is Cliff even a Dev anymore?

The steambox isn't a console though. It's a prebuilt PC that's designed for use in the living room for someone who doesn't want to build their own rig or any other reason. Can you upgrade all the hardware parts of a console? Can you legally change the OS to whatever you want? Are they open platforms? If any of those answers are "No", then this is not a console.tagyhag

Logic?? get out....

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[QUOTE="Evo_nine"]

I dont understand steambox. 

 

Isnt it cheaper/easier/better to build my own tower and hook it up to my tv? 

Evo_nine

Probably, but do you realize how many people buy pre-built computers every year from places like Walmart or Best Buy? 

Valve wants to put a certified gaming/media PC right next to those PCs, and hope that the same type of consumer finds interest in it.

It's not as if Valve is only targetting the hardcore PC enthusiast crowd. 

Well, I don't know if I'd say it excites them on a hardware standpoint. It's just something new getting buzz, but I've seen many of them who share the same thoughts you do.

But even then I don't think every PC gamer here fits into the "hardcore PC enthusiast" group.

Notch and CliffyB? Really?

Is Cliff even a Dev anymore?

seanmcloughlin

Why people don´t bother to open the link :evil:

I dont understand steambox. 

 

Isnt it cheaper/easier/better to build my own tower and hook it up to my tv? 

Evo_nine

I guess the big correlation with Valve announcing Steam Machines and of course SteamOS on Monday has something to do with AMD announcing Mantle. I have a feeling we'll be seeing some damn good performance out of AMD's upcoming Kaveri APUs with Mantle, making them the likely "minimum spec" for a proper Steam Machine. It would be nice to see Valve leverage GPGPU capabilities in Kaveri if that's the case.  

Luckily, in the same manner as Android, SteamOS is open.  It will on any reasonably modern x86 hardware.  There will likely be a target hardware spec that Valve feels most SteamOS games are built to without being expensive.  I'm making the guess again that Kaveri will be the target recommended initial spec since it's slated for great performance at a very low initial cost to custom builders and OEMS.

This is a great thing though. Finally pc gaming is going to be more accesible to a larger audience. I'm very exicted with this news.

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I dont understand steambox. 

 

Isnt it cheaper/easier/better to build my own tower and hook it up to my tv? 

treedoor

Probably, but do you realize how many people buy pre-built computers every year from places like Walmart or Best Buy? 

Valve wants to put a certified gaming/media PC right next to those PCs, and hope that the same type of consumer finds interest in it.

It's not as if Valve is only targetting the hardcore PC enthusiast crowd. 

[QUOTE="lowe0"][QUOTE="jhonMalcovich"]

Open the link. I only posted a sample.

jhonMalcovich

Facepalm. Open the link "Game developers reaction to Valve announcements" 

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Notch and CliffyB? Really?

Is Cliff even a Dev anymore?

jhonMalcovich

Why people don´t bother to open the link :evil:

Cos you should bring the relevant stuff to your OP if you want people to see it instead of telling them to click a bunch of links

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[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

StrongBlackVine

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

It's a console.

how?  it seriously shares nothing in common with consoles minus the fact that it can be used from a couch. 

Honestly, if they keep the prices respectable I'm getting one. Last time I owned what would pass for a gaming rig was 2008, been postponing building another for 5 years, mainly due to lack of interest. Due some minor casual gaming on my Laptop, CoD/United Offensive, HL2, Diablo2, WoW(when I played it), etc... This would give me a reason to get back into PC gaming more regularly. I see there are different models to be available, any word on whether or not said models would be upgradeable?Spartan070

Its upgradable if its designed by the manufacturer to be.  So yes

Death of consoles? I donno.

 

What Valve is doing is bringing an open environment to the world of consoles which is awesome, and it'll certainly change how Sony and MS think in regards to their consoles (assuming it's popular)

 

 

treedoor

If done right, it could definitely bring new competition. One platform that can play my same game library on both PC and a console in the living room? Yes please. They just have to be competitive with hardware pricing, which is the biggest obstacle. I'm sure they're already working with developers for games in addition to hardware. Console makers are stuck with years old technology and ways of doing things. Someone has to push the industry forward. 

Steambox seems like a hybrid of console and PC. It seems like will mean the death of PC exclusives. Hilarity will come. Giancar

A consolized PC. Best of both worlds. Maybe?

Still won't get those exclusives.

The steamboxes aren;t going to be much different from the alienware X51 just a small form PC.

[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

jhonMalcovich

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

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[QUOTE="lilnazar"]

How exactly is it death of consoles, when Steambox is practicly a console itself? Even PC game devs are getting so desperate that they are starting to make consoles to join the console market.

lamprey263

Steambox  is not a console. A gaming pc built arround tv and living room. :roll:

 i thought it was going to be upgradable.

 "This prototype Steam Box is going to be a powerful, open machine, reppin' hardware upgradability and SteamOS"

http://gizmodo.com/valves-first-piece-of-hardware-is-a-steam-box-prototyp-1385903248