The Steambox

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I read recently that Valve's Steambox is entering into its beta phase and has selected a lucky few to receive early builds of it.

From what I can tell (details are a little patchy at the moment) it looks like it could potentially be a real contender in the console market. Of course it'll run Steam as its OS and apparently all those sales etc that come on steam will be appearing on there too.

 

What I was wondering are what are your thoughts?

 

I'm actually pretty excited by the idea of it. I think it might actually shake the doldrums out of the console market and show the big 3 how to treat your customers right.

 

Also I want it to be success simply because a Microsoft executive said "they aren't worried by it"... Come on Valve wipe the smug off of their faces. The last time a company exec said that it was Nintendo about the Xbox and playstation and it took them about 6 years to finally recover.

 

Of course it's going to have its limitations, but as I said, as the specs are a unknown I can't say one way or another what those limitations are going to be. I severely doubt that it'll be able to run Skyrim with all the settings on maximum etc.

Edited March 8, 2013 by Fridge