[QUOTE="Wasdie"]
[QUOTE="blackace"]
I understand that. I'm talking about all the different options with the hardware and all the different prices it will have. You have 7-8 different SteamBox on the shelf with various prices, consumers are going to want to know what the differences are between each system. There will be a LOT of questions. That's what I mean by confusing.
blackace
That's why they need to think of a good way of marketing them.
It's Valve. They are good at making things easy.
We'll see. STEAM wasn't an overnight success.
but at the time PC gaming wasn't growing or expanding all that well, in fact things were moving heavily towards console gaming and steam brought a lot of that ease of use to PC's as well as an amazing DRM system. I still don't know what the **** i own on 360 after I replaced it. Go through 5 years of downloads? with no filter? Have to look at the demos? Jesus ****ing christ, M$ needs to revamp their system if they want me to purchase anything digitally.
steam turned out to be amazing because it brought a lot of unified form to the way games were distributed/installed and the player bases became more unified as well since it wasn't as necessary to have 10 different chat programs from everywhere. Prior to steam there was tons of redudancy in the tools/drm that PC's used that just weren't all that great.
Fast forward to now... PC gaming is huge, and expanding. M$ has been leading the graphics technology with directx since probably 2011, you can hook up 3 monitors and play an panorimic view, windows 7 is amazing, windows 8 + pokki is amazing. THey are both incredibly solid OS's, stable secure.
The only thing I really see thats beneificial for the steam OS is a good counter to the excess digital rights mangagers that have been added to the fun. I'd rather have my entire game library on a single platform , and all communication going through that platform to make it unified. Thats partially what is great about consoles. But on the other hand... origin really isn't that bad. And linux has a long long way to go until its really proven as a solid gaming platform.
I think when it comes to gaming though, windows is a necessary evil. I dont' like how linux gets developed, I don't like how the linux community doesn't make one set of fully feature and configurable libraries for desktops, they branch and make a new custom one when someone's direction changes. The linux community diverges on a whim, and you end up with features that get left behind, are unstable, or strangley clunky to use, multiple libraries with a lot of redundancy.
I like linux, but I like windows more. I think its a much stabler desktop platform with features that are fully baked and the desktop environment has a lot more cohesion.
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