Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware partners

Re:Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware... by nwmcsween on Saturday March 03, 2012 @01:58AM (#3659604)

Am I the only one that sees this as a bad move? Microsoft had os development, directx, intel this is why they pivoted into the console market. I think valve should expand steam even more - bring steam to xbox, ps3, wii make buying games cheap easy and fast.

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Re:Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware... by redthrowaway on Saturday March 03, 2012 @02:04AM (#3659621)

Thing is, Valve has mindshare and love amongst gamers that MS couldn't hope to match, and Sony had none of when it brought out the PS.

There will be many gamers (myself included) who will buy this simply because it's Valve and we trust them not only to make it awesome, but to bring awesome games to it as well.

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Re:Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware... by tapoxi on Saturday March 03, 2012 @02:21AM (#3659647)

Valve brought Steam (in the form of a subset of the Steamworks APIs) to PS3 for cooperative play in Portal 2. But they can't expand Steam to someone else's platform, those three you mentioned already have their respective stores.

As I see it, a "Steam Box" would merely be a hardware specification that Valve sets and game developers can rely on, ship with Steam preinstalled and supporting their previously announced "big picture mode", and the multi-input controller. But for all intents and purposes, it would be a standard desktop PC. Probably one designed to be used in the living room, but standard hardware nonetheless.

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