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Valve Announcement Trifecta

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ChaoSera:
Why is that man eating a hat? Do hats taste good when salted?

de_la_Nae:
Good man, LTK. I was going to say something, but you remembered!

Neko_Ali:
I was thinking at first that they were aiming towards the console crowd, but I think they are trying to bridge the gap between console and PC peeps here. One of the biggest selling points of consoles is being plug and play. You hook it up, put in the disk and it works.. No worrying about hardware power or comparability, no fiddling with driver updates or any of that. The flip side of course is lack up upgrade ability with consoles... All you can do most of the time is replace it when the system gets out powered... a fact console manufacturers count on, of course. This advertised 'open architecture' seems to be implying that the end user can swap out components. Or it could be that you can tailor your system build to fit your needs.

Either way, Steam has an advantage over the updating issues... They already do automatic updates on software installed through them. If they have full control over the OS as well, they can do that end too. I am a bit intrigued and will keep watching. All of this are things I could do now but don't bother because it's a bit of a pain and I'm plenty happy to play games on my computer, and just leave the TV for the few things I can't do there. But depending on price and the operating stats.. it might well be worth getting a Steam Machine as a secondary PC/console hybrid... I had given some thought to the Ouya for that, but I see a lot more useful to me potential here.

snalin:

--- Quote ---Can I hack this box? Run another OS? Change the hardware? Install my own software? Use it to build a robot?
Sure.

Can I download the OS to try it out?
You will be able to download it (including the source code, if you're into that) but not yet.

--- End quote ---

This is what makes me excited about everything they're announcing. This is why I'll buy this over any console from Microsoft or Sony. They're not worried abut secrecy or NDAs or all the bullshit that's in between the consumer and those monolithic companies. They're an immense software developer and publisher, and they're doing this open source.

Also, at the bottom:

--- Quote ---Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.

--- End quote ---

That is interesting. Maybe the third announcement is a special gamepad of some sort made for Big Picture? Maybe something including the biometrics Valve has been going on about for a while?

de_la_Nae:
My bet is that it will pour a perfect dirty martini everytime.

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