Anyone else keeping up with the new Steam announcements? I'm rather intrigued about the whole affair of a new console allowing options for upgrades, our own OS options too. Adds to the longevity of the device too with hardware upgrades as well.
I find it pretty cool they're releasing their own operating system and their own controller that look really cool to me.
The controller looks very funky, touchpads instead of thumbsticks seems like a new approach to me to bridge the gap between computer mice and thumbsticks, seems it could be precise yet accessible enough. One cool feature is that the pads themselves, also act as speakers, so consider the reloading and weapon sounds of a FPG gun coming from the controller instead of the TV/monitor? To me that would be a cool addition to immersion and surround systems.
Also, you can try and become one of the lucky 300 (actually 270 for random tickets) and get a free steam machine to test, hack, mess about with and so forth.
I'm kind of glad these will miss Christmas, a sign they aren't rushing to get at the height of consumer demand, but that is also a high risk. I think the price of the whole thing and the loyalty of the people as well as clever marketing will decide the fate of this product.
They can barely keep Steam working correctly, and more people I know only use it because the other choices are even less workable, not out of any sense of loyalty or fandom. Kinda wish they would focus on making Steam itself better and getting Half-Life 3 out.
I never said steam didn't work, I said it barely worked. Switching between tabs is slow, loading stuff is slow, can't play a game because another unrelated game is downloading. Updates every two days, says to improve performance, no improvement seen.
Try opening a page for a game in steam and try the same one in chrome or firefox, tell me isn't slower.
I am just underwhelmed that this is what they are putting their time into instead of what they used to be good at, which is games. I need more new games which are actually worth my time, not yet another device to clutter up my already cluttered media center.
More console console console.
Idiots would buy them for sure even if there is OUYA and PC.
This console is even worse then others since it is promoted as PC.
Sadly another nail in the PC gaming coffin.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
(09-28-2013, 11:00 AM)Govedo13 Wrote: More console console console.
Idiots would buy them for sure even if there is OUYA and PC.
This console is even worse then others since it is promoted as PC.
Sadly another nail in the PC gaming coffin.
In correct, SteamOS is an iteration of Linux, meaning those games will run on PC too, Valve is still going to keep going with PC gaming, and if SteamOS takes off, Ubuntu could have a much larger gaming library.
I would consider this a step toward improvement in both PC gaming AND console gaming. This seems like a very nice mix of both forms of gaming, helping to bridge the gap between the two. But, time will tell.
The controller though, the ability to "hack" it that Valve is implementing for it is very revolutionary (at least in concept). It's giving more power to the gamer to control his gaming experience, rather than his gaming experience being majorly controlled by the game/console developers.
Gotta say, I'm a little bit excited about it after seeing more on it. It looks like it has ALOT of potential.
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