Gabe Newell: Living Room PCs Will Compete With Next-Gen Consoles
As for a time-frame, Newell said that he’d expect these sorts of packages to go on sale next year – though it isn’t entirely clear if he was talking about Valve’s own efforts or those of other companies looking to do similar things. “We’ll do it but we also think other people will as well,” he said.
From the sounds of things, however, Valve’s plans for the living room don’t entail recreating as open and malleable a system as the PC experience currently is.
“Well certainly our hardware will be a very controlled environment,” he said, calling Valve’s offering a turnkey solution. “If you want more flexibility, you can always buy a more general purpose PC.”
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OasisPosted:
JamyMonopoly_Man I can't believe this, I think the money would be better spent if it went towards a game streaming service. That way people with low end PC's can play AAA titles and then use big-picture if they wish to play in their living room.
Remember what happened to OnLive, that kind of failed.
It's a saturated market. Not to be taken lightly if anyone wants to make a success of it.
Index_AddictPosted:
Interesting. This does not seem like a bad idea at all. More over the fact im questioning is since its in the living room is it going to be remote controlled or not. Either way looks like it could be a success.
DankruptPosted:
Monopoly_Man I can't believe this, I think the money would be better spent if it went towards a game streaming service. That way people with low end PC's can play AAA titles and then use big-picture if they wish to play in their living room.
I agree with everything you said
VisionaryMGMTPosted:
"with the ongoing push into Linux" Yes. Come to linux! PLEASE! I never got into the closed beta :(
JamyPosted:
Monopoly_Man I can't believe this, I think the money would be better spent if it went towards a game streaming service. That way people with low end PC's can play AAA titles and then use big-picture if they wish to play in their living room.
Remember what happened to OnLive, that kind of failed.
thomazPosted:
I kinda expected this :P I wonder if the valve box will allow box users and pc players to play together? Does anyone know if the box will have controllers or a wireless mouse and keyboard? Interesting to say the least.
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