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Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon


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Valve chief blasts PC market, promises big news is coming next week. 

 

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/gabe-newell-linux-is-the-future-of-gaming-new-hardware-coming-soon/

 

 

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite its current minuscule share of the market.

 

That seems hard to believe, given that Newell acknowledged Linux gaming generally accounts for less than one percent of the market by any measure including players, player minutes, and revenue. But Valve is going to do its best to make sure Linux becomes the future of gaming by extending its Steam distribution platform to hardware designed for living rooms.

 

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Here's my take on it,

 

I would love to see Linux succeed as a PC gaming platform.. If they could somehow get a large % of current windows games to run under Linux/Steam, it would definitely catch people's attention. Regardless if they used Wine, transgaming..etc.. just get a large selection of 'Steam' supported windows games there and make a case for future native linux games.

 

Porting their catalog is a start but it's not enough IMO.

 

Last weekend I was cursing up a storm at Windows 8 on my mediaPC, I ended up installing Ubuntu with XBMC..etc and everything worked. My legit copy of Windows 8 is officially retired.. It went from my main workstation to my HTPC to my recycle bin.

 

Steam Linux Gaming... Bring it! ;)

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Valve just announced the first part of its living room strategy with SteamOS, a free Linux-based operating system that takes the ‘Big Picture’ feature one step further. In addition to playing your game collection, SteamOS allows you to watch movies and listen to music.

 

The company has yet to announce a hardware partner for SteamOS, but this could certainly be the operating system behind the rumored Steam Box computer. OEMs will be able to use SteamOS to build gaming computers, as Valve states multiple times that it’s an open platform.

 

 

6Hrs to go !! ^_^

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While these products are still in development, we need your help. As always, we believe the best way to ensure that the right products are getting made is to let people try them out and then make changes as we go. We have designed a high-performance prototype that’s optimized for gaming, for the living room, and for Steam. Of course, it’s also completely upgradable and open.

This year we’re shipping just 300 of these boxes to Steam users, free of charge, for testing. You can make yourself eligible to get one. How? Read on!

 

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

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Looks terrible to me.

 

A "console" that can't play a lot of AAA games without having your pc running in another room, so basicaly locked to a few good games and a lot of other indie uncool games (don't think I don't like indie gaming but look at the steam linux games there's a lot of terrible stuff there).

 

Basicaly it can't do what I can do with any pc (or mini pc if you want it next to your tv set) on windows. The only benefit is full gamepad support, but then again how many games support it fully (most are partial support with the need to use keyboard/mouse at activation or update and stuff making the steam os a not so good solution for "gamepad" based play)...

 

I really don't see the appeal here, looks kinda useless to me, at least I wouldn't buy yet another machine to do half the stuff I can do with my regular pc or a custom "box set" one.

This is really a poor's man solution to pc gaming, microsoft or sony at least give the players something new to use, the steambox doesn't even offer everything a regular pc does...

If you want to copy the console's world with a pc platform, at least make it so that it add something to the experience (and don't talk about big picture, try to use is without a mouse and a keyboard on a few titles for a few weeks... just try).

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We play with the Steam Machine, Valve's game console of the future

 

 

Last month, Valve invited us to its Bellevue, Washington headquarters to see one of the very first Steam Machines in action, try the Steam Controller, and obtain further insight into the company's plans.

Here’s what we learned there.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/5063760/we-try-the-steam-machine-valves-video-game-console-of-the-future

 

 

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Valve: Steam Machines delayed until 2015

 

Valve Software used a forum in the Steam games-store app to announce a delay, though for once, it wasn't for an internally developed video game. Instead, the company slapped a "when it's done" sticker on its Steam Machine living-room PC project, which has now been bumped to "a release window of 2015, not 2014."

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SteamOS Beta is here

 

So, what is SteamOS Beta?

SteamOS Beta is an early, first-look public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 7, code named Debian Wheezy. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for a living room experience. Most of all, it is an open Linux platform that leaves you in full control. You can take charge of your system and install new software or content as you want.

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