Valve working on a console?!

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Apparently Valve may be working on a console.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/2/284093 ... ng-console

I'd buy it.

TheVision · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 13:17

Steam in a box? Under the telly?

Sounds good to me.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

You'd buy what exactly? If it's going to support all the games on Steam, it's going to have to run Windows. Which sounds a lot like a PC to me.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Not necessarily. There are a number of ways they could make it without it being a PC. They could ask developers to port their games. They could emulate a Windows environment beneath whatever "OS" they decide to use. Or it could be a little Windows box under your telly. If it's affordable and it runs everything available on Steam on my telly for a fair price, I'm in.

Your beloved PC will still have a place in the gaming world. Chill.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Oh I'm not being defensive or anything, and I'm interested to hear what they come up with, but if it is just a PC designed to fit under your telly, it's not all that exciting. We've had them for years.

I'm open to the possibility of it being something more than just that, but if "Playing all your Steam games" is a feature it has, it pretty much has to be running Windows.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

LewieP wrote:

Oh I'm not being defensive or anything, and I'm interested to hear what they come up with, but if it is just a PC designed to fit under your telly, it's not all that exciting. We've had them for years.

It'll be a PC, I'd imagine, but with APIs for specific hardware support (so a standard gamepad, for example), and with a specific hardware spec (so like a console), with devs optimising games for it. There's mileage in this concept beyond "it's just a PC under the telly", and in any event I don't think "PCs under the telly" is the mainstream concept you think it is. If anyone could make this work, it's Valve. I'm interested.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 20:39

Joystiq wrote:

Should rumors be believed, the Alienware X51 has already been developed to Steam Box standards and will be retroactively infused with Valve's software once it becomes available.

So £600 quid ish?

joystiq wrote:

"sources" claim that mood-tracking biometric systems will be implemented into the system, either in the form of bracelets or directly into Steam Box controllers. This would allow a game to measure the player's pulse rate and galvanic skin response, the gameplay/design implications of which are numerous.

Or if you're ill. Or if it's summer. Or dead. I hope I get to wear 3D glasses to play my games as well as a special bracelet.

Firefox · **Joined:** 20th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 261

I dunno, I can't see it being appealing to many people unless it costs a similar amount to a current PS3.

If you're going to spend more than that then why not buy an actual PC instead?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Pretty much debunked.

http://kotaku.com/5891697/shooting-down ... -time-soon

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38651

This looks nice though

http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/ ... icture.php

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