The Steam Universe is Expanding in 2014...

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Still 45 mins to go on the countdown for the first announcement. I'm sure this has to do with Steam Big Picture and/or possibly Steambox. With 3 being involved lots of rumors are stirring about HL3 or L4D3. I doubt we will get any big announcements like that, but I am definitely hoping for them!

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

1st Announcement - SteamOS
2nd Announcement - Steam Machines
3rd Announcement - Steam Controller
 
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If this is good for any gaming pc and all games work on it..... I wouldn't even think once on changing windows :)
 
maniac said:
If this is good for any gaming pc and all games work on it..... I wouldn't even think once on changing windows :)
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You will still need your Windows PC. It looks like SteamOS will stream the game from your Windows gaming PC to the SteamOS computer and display on your TV.
 
hmmblah said:
You will still need your Windows PC. It looks like SteamOS will stream the game from your Windows gaming PC to the SteamOS computer and display on your TV.
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Could this mean that something as low powered as a raspberry pi could be used for it? purely for the streaming part. Or would it not have enough grunt?
 
hmmblah said:
You will still need your Windows PC. It looks like SteamOS will stream the game from your Windows gaming PC to the SteamOS computer and display on your TV.
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That's one feature but it's built on Linux and I see no reason for it not to support the current Linux titles on Steam.
 
SPS said:
That's one feature but it's built on Linux and I see no reason for it not to support the current Linux titles on Steam.
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Yes, all 15 of them will work. ;) Joking aside, yes anything that runs on linux will run native on SteamOS. Lots of indie games and valves titles. Most AAA PC games though are Windows only.

It will be interesting to see if upcoming (2014 and beyond) AAA games are dual platform.
 
hmmblah said:
Yes, all 15 of them will work. ;) Joking aside, yes anything that runs on linux will run native on SteamOS. Lots of indie games and valves titles. Most AAA PC games though are Windows only.

It will be interesting to see if upcoming (2014 and beyond) AAA games are dual platform.
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Valve are pushing for more Linux supported titles though and they are the company that can make it happen - although I'd prefer it not to as a DirectX coder ;)
 
i don't get it. steam os seems pretty pointless to me, why would i turn my pc into a console. i could run it in dualboot, but the only reason for why i would use that OS is for games that support a controller of some sort and i can do that with big picture. if i don't run it in dual boot then i could just get a console in the first place.
 
Snortan said:
1st Announcement - SteamOS
2nd Announcement -SteamBox
3rd Announcement -Half Life 3 SteamBox exclusivity
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I'd agree, the 2nd one is definitely the hardware. As for Half-Life 3 I won't hold my breath, it is Valve we're talking about, although it'll be a disappointment if it's not among them.

On the other hand, they could announce Left 4 Dead 3, and Portal 3, with no mention of Half-Life 3 just to be Uber Trolls. :lol:
 
SeekaX said:
i don't get it. steam os seems pretty pointless to me, why would i turn my pc into a console. i could run it in dualboot, but the only reason for why i would use that OS is for games that support a controller of some sort and i can do that with big picture. if i don't run it in dual boot then i could just get a console in the first place.
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because not everyone is you or wants what you want?
+ performance gains from lack of overhead running a heavy OS

Imagine what you'll be saying when it gets to the point where ALL games can and will run on Steam OS but better than any other platform, because lets face it, that's EXACTLY what valve wants and if the past is anything to go by. Not a lot stands in the way of Valve / Steam and most / all of their decisions have all been spot on.
 
SeekaX said:
i don't get it. steam os seems pretty pointless to me, why would i turn my pc into a console. i could run it in dualboot, but the only reason for why i would use that OS is for games that support a controller of some sort and i can do that with big picture. if i don't run it in dual boot then i could just get a console in the first place.
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It'll make machines that are primarily for gaming cheaper, no need to buy windows :D. It's also a good backup just incase if windows want to go to a much more closed form again.
 
SuB said:
because not everyone is you or wants what you want?
+ performance gains from lack of overhead running a heavy OS

Imagine what you'll be saying when it gets to the point where ALL games can and will run on Steam OS but better than any other platform, because lets face it, that's EXACTLY what valve wants and if the past is anything to go by. Not a lot stands in the way of Valve / Steam and most / all of their decisions have all been spot on.
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this.. but from what i can see the main problem for "games" is directx. or really amd and nvidia dragging over some real driver implementation for linux, then getting games made through opengl.

MS are not stupid, why use an opensource api when you can have one in your backpocket that isnt approved for use on any other os, and when youve been paying devs and hardware tech for years to use your personal instruction set, you get locked in.

if valve can break this chain then hopefully we can get a free os, with AAA game releases, hopefully forcing the other major devs to come across, but its going to take time.

this is really only the first step. but you know what Sun Tzu said about that...
 
SuB said:
because not everyone is you or wants what you want?
+ performance gains from lack of overhead running a heavy OS

Imagine what you'll be saying when it gets to the point where ALL games can and will run on Steam OS but better than any other platform, because lets face it, that's EXACTLY what valve wants and if the past is anything to go by. Not a lot stands in the way of Valve / Steam and most / all of their decisions have all been spot on.
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i guess the performance will be better, but i highly doubt there will be support for older games, Steam has been around for a while and most devs can't be bothered to port their old games.
as another personal matter, i tend to do at least 2 or 3 things at once on my pc (game + movie + forum for example), so a gaming only OS would hold me back.
my guess would be that they develop this OS mainly for the steam box and are just going to make it open platform because that's how valve rolls.
if they don't get to use the libraries of windows for this project this will take ages to be a full port.
 
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