Steambox to be Linux based and launching this year???

#1 Posted by xMEGADETHxSLY (455 posts) - 4 months, 14 days ago
#2 Posted by Village_Guy (2090 posts) - 4 months, 14 days ago

German reporters strike again! Have anyone heard of this golem.de site before? It seems suspicious that they are the only ones that got this news?

#3 Posted by oraknabo (1182 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago
#4 Posted by bemusedchunk (338 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

Saw a post on engadget regarding this.

Looks legit.

I'm still skeptical, and rather have a MASTER PC RACE running steam big picture mode whilst connected to my tv - but that's just me...

#5 Posted by Jams (2668 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

All I fucking want is a local Steam version of onlive! I want to stream video's of the games installed on my computer. I'd buy the box if it could do that. Or I'll buy the Nvidia controller shit thing if it does that (which it says it can do). Of course the price has to be right.

#6 Posted by Bell_End (1069 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

i hate linus

#7 Posted by tescovee (245 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

wow considering the state of fglrx drivers and the Nvid drivers for Linux being pretty wack, it must be a streaming thing? or what?

#8 Posted by august (3708 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

@tescovee said:

wow considering the state of fglrx drivers and the Nvid drivers for Linux being pretty wack, it must be a streaming thing? or what?

Valve may have enough money and influence to get ATI and nvidia to improve their drivers or improve the open source ones themselves.

#9 Posted by oraknabo (1182 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

I've been on the linux beta with my Radeon drivers and the few games I have on there play better than on Windows.

I doubt they'll do this, but something like a WiiU controler might be the best way to interact with a TV-bound computer.

#10 Posted by tescovee (245 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

@august said:

@tescovee said:

wow considering the state of fglrx drivers and the Nvid drivers for Linux being pretty wack, it must be a streaming thing? or what?

Valve may have enough money and influence to get ATI and nvidia to improve their drivers or improve the open source ones themselves.

Man I would love to believe this. I have been using Debian as a main computer since 2002 or so and any time there always seems to bee 2 steps forward 3 steps back with display drivers. ATI being the worst, so assuming that they do, I would figure that the hardware would be a Nvidia based console? You would also have to think the hardware would have to be proprietary? To ensure that games will be guaranteed to play...yet a closed platform running some Linux derivative seems crazy, only because of the amount of time to make drivers, a form UI. I dono. I hope its true.

#11 Posted by videogamesarenotart (122 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

the love for valve is akin to people's love for apple products

anyone with half a brain saw this coming from a mile away, gabe's company has been trying to strongarm his digital distribution platform into next gen for years now, its just not going to happen and this product is going to fail miserably.

#12 Posted by oraknabo (1182 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago
#13 Edited by alternate (2376 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

Based on their current high performance offering - which currently sells for $900.

Ouch. The more they sell the bigger economies of scale - but still.

Miniaturization actually costs more and not less.

#14 Posted by ValeYard (101 posts) - 4 months, 11 days ago

@Village_Guy: I think golem.de is okay, their stories all seem to have sources behind them.

I'm very interested in the Steam box, since I like to have a PC/Mac just for work purposes, but can't afford a second one for gaming. Also, big screen gaming. This year is very exciting!

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