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Valve is teasing the "Steam box" with a countdown. Maybe 3 new things coming from them?

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The cat has 3 whiskers

the controller has 3 buttons

both (cat and controller) are made of 3 layers

a cat has 9 lives of which the sqrt is 3

The cat has 5 whiskers actually. BOOM here goes your theory!... Just kidding :P People's creation to confirm Half Life 3 never fails to amaze me. Good job :D

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I eagerly await the steam box

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It would be awesome if they release the Steam Box before PS4 and Xbox One with better specs and price..

In an interview with Verge earlier in the year, Gabe talks about the Good, Better, and Best. Potentially three different, but similarly functioning devices for your gaming experience. The three images on the Valve web-site may be referring to this, as the Verge pointed out today.

 

From the words of Gabe himself, three non-configurable (not open-source), potentially proprietary game systems. The first device that works in similar fashion as the Nvidia Shield, but broadcasting to the television via Wi-Fi or is simply a thin client that works with Nvidia Grid. The second is a machine with a dedicated CPU and GPU (fixed and controlled by Valve). The third looks to be a chassis plus processor type system that 'those guys' can manufacture. He did not specify who 'those guys' are. Potentially consumers or Nvidia. From the sound of it, it looks like the latter.

 

Gabe also mentions that they are seeking to have a physical controller with biometric capabilities. Keyboard and mouse would probably be supported, but it doesn't seem that is the main controller option, which makes sense as K+M aren't portable devices that can be moved around and used seamlessly, without putting it on a physical surface. After all, the main objective of the Steam Box is to take control of the living room / people's main entertainment space.

 

P.S. It is highly unlikely it will be available in less than two months. At this stage, we'd have seen rumours or leaks of manufactured devices. So, as there is little to none, they are likely in prototype phase. They'd want to get feedback from audiences anyway.

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My prediction: their own Linux distro, and a Netflix competing streaming or media distribution service.

 

The first prototypes of Piston had i5s in them, from their original partner, I doubt it will be much different.

Not sure if I follow, but the Piston didn't and does not have any relation to Valve.

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Not sure if I follow, but the Piston didn't and does not have any relation to Valve.

Xi3 claimed that the Piston was going to be the Steambox but Valve came and and said it was one of many prototypes they there were exploring, from what I remember. 

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Not sure if I follow, but the Piston didn't and does not have any relation to Valve.

 

Piston was part of their R&D pool, and the only one to actually deliver a hard sample, which has ended up in the hands of the public. Their cubical/ modular motherboard design remains revolutionary for cooling and space efficiency, so even if the CPU ends up being different I'd collectively class Valve as huge whopping idiots if they don't go with a design close to what the piston looks like.

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All this means to me is that if its the SteamBox, Linux gaming is nigh upon us! Soon I shall dispatch of the worthless worm of an OS, Windows.

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All this means to me is that if its the SteamBox, Linux gaming is nigh upon us! Soon I shall dispatch of the worthless worm of an OS, Windows.

This has to be the one thing that is guaranteed to be announced or mentioned next week. Gaming is the only thing that keeps me using Windows. 

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Seems like something big on September 23. They might change the Steam UI, big picture ui, or create a steam box as everyone was waiting for it. :)

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From the words of Gabe himself, three non-configurable (not open-source), potentially proprietary game systems.

How is it proprietary? It comes with Linux. If you want to install another OS like Windows on it you can. And if won't have exclusive games because it's basically a PC. Not a new platform... it plays PC games. Gabe said "We’ll come out with our own [steamBox] and we’ll sell it to consumers by ourselves. That’ll be a Linux box,” he said. “If you want to install Windows you can. We’re not going to make it hard. This is not some locked box by any stretch of the imagination"

 

Valve wants to make PC gaming popular in the living room and so they encourage hardware vendors to come up with suitable pre-built PCs in appropriate form factors and market them as living room gaming devices (console alternatives). Piston was one such attempt.

 

Piston was part of their R&D pool, and the only one to actually deliver a hard sample, which has ended up in the hands of the public. Their cubical/ modular motherboard design remains revolutionary for cooling and space efficiency

But nobody asked for a device that small with so many compromises. People would much rather have a slightly larger more powerful device. I don't see what the target market is for Piston.

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72 hours notice and what are the odds that I miss the actual announcement lol

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Half-Life 3 is the Duke Nukem Forever of AAA titles.  We all ask when is it coming out, seems like it never will, but we all know it's gonna be damn good!

 

Half-Life 3 timed-exclusive on a SteamBox?  Hmmm...

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i dont know if this is a known thing but i found this

 

at the "featured partners" part of http://store.steampowered.com/ there is a alianware link. it has always linked to the main alianware website. but now it directs to

http://store.steampowered.com/hardware/alienware/

 

and the left "thing" is not on the alianware website! steambox? or am i just crasy

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But nobody asked for a device that small with so many compromises. People would much rather have a slightly larger more powerful device. I don't see what the target market is for Piston.

 

What compromises? No optical drive? I find a system that tiny with a 3570K in it and that still manages to be efficiently cooled pretty damn desireable. And it has tons of I/O. Not to mention it's upgradeable.

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I find a system that tiny with a 3570K in it and that still manages to be efficiently cooled pretty damn desireable.

But it's a gaming machine and for that the 3570k is not going to help the piston, they needed some graphics horsepower even at the cost of a weaker CPU.
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i dont know if this is a known thing but i found this

 

at the "featured partners" part of http://store.steampowered.com/ there is a alianware link. it has always linked to the main alianware website. but now it directs to

http://store.steampowered.com/hardware/alienware/

 

and the left "thing" is not on the alianware website! steambox? or am i just crasy

 You are crazy. That is just the X51 on its side.

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Half-Life 3 timed-exclusive on a SteamBox?  Hmmm...

It may be timed but it won't be an exclusive.

Steambox (or whatever they decide to name it) is a PC, not a new platform, so it won't have exclusives.

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The first circle will probably be the reveal of the steambox, not sure what the second one will be, but the third circle will probably be a steam game exclusive for the PC/Steambox, since HL3 is a long shot, it might be either Portal 3 or L4D3. 

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The first circle will probably be the reveal of the steambox, not sure what the second one will be, but the third circle will probably be a steam game exclusive for the PC/Steambox, since HL3 is a long shot, it might be either Portal 3 or L4D3. 

Whatever the case this is going to be an awesome week in terms of announcements. Valve and AMD are announcing new stuff

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The cat has 5 whiskers actually. BOOM here goes your theory!... Just kidding :P People's creation to confirm Half Life 3 never fails to amaze me. Good job :D

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 You are crazy. That is just the X51 on its side.

welp.... im sorry your right. i fail :D well we will know something in the next 16 minuts

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Are you freaking kidding me, another timer? Grr.. ok off to read what they are saying and then later have to eat my outrage :D

 

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Yip, thought as much, having to eat my outrage lol

 

So a Steam OS... didn't I suggest that is what this could have been in a post some place? Any way, great idea, if Devs take it up that is

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