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It looks like the Steambox that has been widely reported by many sites is in fact a real thing.

This time we have an official confirmation by a Valve engineer, Ben Krasnow, who talked about a Linux-based Valve console scheduled for 2013. German site Golem.de attended a special event, and it seems a bunch of other products are planned by Valve as well.

“The Hardware Lab also has a few secret projects that will be published in 2013. We have a good group of electronic and mechanical engineers, and we look forward to “build some cool stuff.” Krasnov said. (Rough German translation)

It is being said that this console will be announced by them sometime this year, but there’s no specific timing given for it. It’s not clear whether they will hold a separate conference or announce it at E3.

The console will run Linux, and based on the recent comments by Gabe Newell on how Windows 8 is something of a “catastrophe” and they don’t want to be dependent on it, this is not surprising at all. Valve engineer Krasnow has been working on the hardware with Jeri Ellsworth since 2011, the German site reports.

The Game Developers Conference will be held between March 25-29 this year. That is one of the best events to announce the console as well.

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StateOfMind404 said:
No i hadn't heard, it looks really cool though. it would be nice to finally have a hand held that feels like a console controller

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Is just weird lol, can play android games or stream games from your pc....



http://shield.nvidia.com/play-pc-games

just what i need, being able to play skyrim in bed :P

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Masticore said:
I got sick of controllers, so I stick to PC games, but the concept is interesting. If the games you have on steam can be loaded to the console (which the name implies you can), like you can load onto multiple PCs, I'd be tempted to get one just so I could play my games with my friends who don't like PC.

That nvidia device seems like a really cool concept, but more of a niche thing. I can imagine that coming with a hefty price tag.

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Wait, what?  Basically your computer is doing the heavy lifting running the video game and then it's just streaming the video and audio to the tablet/controller.  It's basically doing the same thing apple does with airplay mirroring or even better yet the Wii U, in the way that you can stop using the Wii U with your television and resume playing on the tablet/controller deal. 

You might be able to dual box the game, which is running two instances of the game on one pc...  one to be streamed to the nvidia shield and another to play for yourself, but that's going to be very taxing on your computer and probably kick the shit out of the FPS on any reasonably demanding game... I used to dual box all the time when I played WoW though, it wasn't a very demanding game

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Masticore said:
I got sick of controllers, so I stick to PC games, but the concept is interesting. If the games you have on steam can be loaded to the console (which the name implies you can), like you can load onto multiple PCs, I'd be tempted to get one just so I could play my games with my friends who don't like PC.

That nvidia device seems like a really cool concept, but more of a niche thing. I can imagine that coming with a hefty price tag.

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Wait, what?  Basically your computer is doing the heavy lifting running the video game and then it's just streaming the video and audio to the tablet/controller.  It's basically doing the same thing apple does with airplay mirroring or even better yet the Wii U, in the way that you can stop using the Wii U with your television and resume playing on the tablet/controller deal. 

You might be able to dual box the game, which is running two instances of the game on one pc...  one to be streamed to the nvidia shield and another to play for yourself, but that's going to be very taxing on your computer and probably kick the shit out of the FPS on any reasonably demanding game... I used to dual box all the time when I played WoW though, it wasn't a very demanding game

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StateOfMind404 said:
http://www.gamechup.com/steam-box-confirmed-by-valve-engineer-for-2013-will-be-linux-based-report/

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It looks like the Steambox that has been widely reported by many sites is in fact a real thing.

This time we have an official confirmation by a Valve engineer, Ben Krasnow, who talked about a Linux-based Valve console scheduled for 2013. German site Golem.de attended a special event, and it seems a bunch of other products are planned by Valve as well.

“The Hardware Lab also has a few secret projects that will be published in 2013. We have a good group of electronic and mechanical engineers, and we look forward to “build some cool stuff.” Krasnov said. (Rough German translation)

It is being said that this console will be announced by them sometime this year, but there’s no specific timing given for it. It’s not clear whether they will hold a separate conference or announce it at E3.

The console will run Linux, and based on the recent comments by Gabe Newell on how Windows 8 is something of a “catastrophe” and they don’t want to be dependent on it, this is not surprising at all. Valve engineer Krasnow has been working on the hardware with Jeri Ellsworth since 2011, the German site reports.

The Game Developers Conference will be held between March 25-29 this year. That is one of the best events to announce the console as well.

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This seems pretty exciting! it would be so nice to have a fourth contender in the console market, and better yet, one that will even run linux.

I do wonder what kinds of games they will be running, and what new technologies they will be bringing to the table.

Would any of you shroomerites be interested in this as well? I contend that a true gamer, games across all platforms, and this would be a fantastic edition to anyone's collection.

Wonder how well it would actually hold up in the market though?

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tdubz said:
There gonna need some luck and some good games to have some success just look at how hard it was for Microsoft to break into the market and that's cause they had billions to spend. Even Nintendo is fading away in the main console market not the portable market of course though. Wish them all the best valve is an awesome company filled with great people.

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