And Valve just revealed the manufactures of the initial Steam boxes.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ste...38910223830657
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The makers of first generation Steam Machines are:
- Alienware
- Alternate
- CyberPowerPC
- Digital Storm
- Falcon NW
- GigaByte
- iBuyPower
- Maingear
- Materiel.net
- Next Spa
- Origin PC
- Scan
- Webhallen
- Zotac
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"systems starting as low as $499" = £305 GBP = €367 EUR = ¥52310 JPY (dammit japan)
Based on the minimum specs for SteamOS currently, that seems quite low.
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I'm buying a Steam Box when they come out, because I could do with a gaming device that runs my Steam Library that is moderately portable and easy to setup.
I can't carry my PC everywhere, but I can take a Steam Box, plug it in to a TV, and play the games I play on PC with my Cloud saves there, and just do what I would do on a PC, except at a friend's house.
When they realise they can get one, and it's better than their Xbox or PS (for which 10 games is as expensive as the console itself - and it's fully backwards compatible if they replace it with a newer one later on in life - not to mention compatible with a PC), they'll get one.
Then I can play multiplayer games with my PC friends vs. my console friends on a TV in another house, even another country or my monitor. Hell, I can go anywhere with an internet connection in the WORLD, because Steam Boxes don't have any country limits like other consoles do.
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