1st countdown came to an end! Valve announced the Steam OS

[Damikiller37]

 

 

 

Last year, we shipped a software feature called Big Picture, a user-interface tailored for televisions and gamepads.

This year we’ve been working on even more ways to connect the dots for customers who want Steam in the living-room.

Soon, we’ll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.

 

Today at 6pm (GMT) the first countdown came to an end and as the result, Valve announced the Steam OS.

This is the 1st announcement out of the 3 as teased earlier (Thread about the teaser: LINK).

The 2nd announcement will take place in 2 days.

 

 

In the coming weeks we will be seeing announcments for natively supported games and we will

get access to nearly 3000 games and desktop software titles via in-home streaming.

 

 

This will be the first real operating system that will be all about the gaming aspect of our lives.

 

 

As valve explains this operating system will be all about 'openness' means that the hardware industry can iterate

in the living room at a much faster pace than they've been able to and that they wanted to create an core

place for their platform, Steam.

 

SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information.

 

What I think of this:

From the first time I've started using/trying Linux I've always thought that it had great potential however I felt a little uncomfortable about it since it was something else compared to windows and didn't seem polished in my eyes mostly in the application and games side of it. Assuming that the Steam OS will be based on Linux I think that it will eventually let the platform bloom at least in the mainstream users eyes such as my own. I think this is what gaming industry needed, a new real competitor for Windows in the aspect of gaming so that we as gamers have a choice and we aren't bound to use Windows only because of the compatibility with games. If anything Valve is probably the only company that could pull of such an ambitious task since they already have an audience that listens and enjoys using their platform. I hope that this project will be as successful as possible so that I can eventually have something more dedicated for gaming than just windows.

 

Source: LINK

 

...oh yeah I think this should be the start up tune of the OS

 

Second announcement is here: LINK

[TopWargamer]

Beat me to it...

 

Ok, I see what Valve is doing here. I don't think they're actually going to be releasing their own hardware, but instead they made SteamOS, which can be freely licensed to whoever, and then 'X' company can essentially make a SteamBox. Make a computer, load SteamOS onto it, SteamBox. 

[Si3Rra_7]

Man you're fast. 

 

 

Edit : Pfft you posted this just to be the first , link doesnt work , and you just copy pasted it in 2 secs no new info >

 

Edit 2 : ok you fixed it

[Cyberpunk177]

Damn you're too fast

[Missioncode]

...you were prepaird

[upliftsleet1974]

Wow your fast lol....

 

But this is cool but I will not be able to get bf4 on it lol

[whatthe_fuzz]

heres the picture

 

OP is on cocaine or something....way too fast <_<

 

probably has Fiber or something

[fallingpizza11]

*Applause* Mann your fast

[Humbug]

Hmmm... Valve's own free Linux distro

[Guest GRRigger]

lol they were working on operating system

 

half life delayed till 2020

 

So steam OS is circle, circle in a box is steambox, what is circle + circle then? 

 

EDIT: Ah nevermind, figured it out. 

O + O means steamOS + Source 2

[rashdanml]

Exactly as anticipated. Good job Valve.

I can't wait to see which AAA titles will become available with the release.

[ixi_your_face]

welp! guess who's getting a small PC to stream stuff to my tv!

[Matsy]

Depending on how this is done, this could be something special

[Ramzez]

I like the fact that so many forum users tried to be the first ones to post news about the Steam OS.

[AndThenThereWas1]

So is it just going to be linux with a better compatibility with steam or will it be something great?

Not to say that linux isnt great.

[fallingpizza11]

Hmmm... Valve's own free Linux distro

"This just in, Millions of Windows, Mac, and Linux users Switch to SteamOS, Operating system industry loosing millions. More on this at 11"

[Si3Rra_7]

Steam streaming service , sharing games , streaming in home , WE GOT A WINNER !

[fredey]

Pretty sure the next announcement is steam box it is the steam os logo in brackets so in a 'box'

 

and I think the steam box is just going to be a stream box by the looks of things

 

So will the pc experience die and the pc will only be the power house for the other interfaces

 

By the way the pic got more colors any guesses except HL3

[Humbug]

Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want.

 

 

^^Still very much Linux

[TheSLSAMG]

Very cool.

[rashdanml]

So is it just going to be linux with a better compatibility with steam or will it be something great?

Not to say that linux isnt great.

The most logical conclusion is that it'll be what Windows is right now, but on Linux. Which is exciting.

[qwertywarrior]

cool but

is this just a big bag of DRM ?

 can i play games on ubuntu instead of steamOS ? ( when it gets a massive following everything gets locked down)

 

 

companies starts friendly when the get rich they become territorial and greedy

[Humbug]

I guess this was also needed because once you factor in the license cost for Windows it becomes too expensive for PCs to compete in the living room vs consoles

[mmracho]

I already want to get my hands on it! *drools*

<---- My picture shows how excited I am.

[Raboo]

Looks cool