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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Valve's "3 Reveal"

Mon, 23 Sep 2013, 14:12
HoboBen
Big news for Linux from Valve Linkage

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Mon, 23 Sep 2013, 14:12
Jayenkai
The fact still remains, though. Free OS or otherwise, I'm too cheap to buy a PC for the living room!! Gimme a £99 powerhouse, and I might give a shit

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Tue, 24 Sep 2013, 14:55
HoboBen
Aye they some folks were saying it can stream from your PC as well.

Mind you our TV is still cathode ray tubes so maybe not.

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Tue, 24 Sep 2013, 15:06
Jayenkai
Doesn't really help, much... My PC barely copes with Portal 1!!

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Thu, 26 Sep 2013, 03:38
Jayenkai
I must admit, their "SteamBox" reveal (Now branded "Steam Machine") was a bit of a letdown.
It's not a single unit, and is instead a "We'll let the manufacturers make whatever the fuck they want" Android-style approach, which IMO pretty much kills the whole bloody point of it.

Bollocks..

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Thu, 26 Sep 2013, 05:38
shroom_monk
I didn't think it was that bad. It seems what they're going for is more of a mix-up of the better features of a console and a PC, while encouraging hardware manufacturers to make their stuff work better with Linux, rather than just "we're making a console now".

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Thu, 26 Sep 2013, 07:05
9572AD
Valve have always said that they would offer a couple of tiers of box themselves, which would serve as a standard, but that anyone could build anything they wanted.
Only thing that's changed is the name.

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Thu, 26 Sep 2013, 09:46
Jayenkai
It just felt like a none-announcement, much like Sony's "big PS4 reveal".
"Hey, we can make a box! We won't show you the box!! Awesomeness!!!"

When a company does a "hardware reveal" they need three things.
1. Price
2. Date
3. The fucking hardware, for fuck sake!!

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013, 07:12
9572AD
True enough. They still don't have the hardware together, necessarily. They are sending out beta versions for testing. You could be a tester! There's a thing on Steam to sign up. Don't get your hopes up, though - when I signed up there were 78,000 people qualified already, and the sign-up is open until October 25. And they're sending out 300 boxes.

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