Sony Will Compete With Valve, Not Microsoft, Next Generation

[Varsh]

Some people are like yourself. Which is awesome. I own a gaming PC because I was wanting to get in on what I was missing out. I built one for around what the steam box is supposed to cost so I would have fell into the Steambox's market comfortably. I just see Elitist from either side turning their nose up at it. PC Elitist "It's weaksauce." Console Elitist "I can't find MS or Sony anywhere on this thing!"

I hope you're not putting me on the "PC Elitist" side of things, it might be my main gaming platform but I do own over 25 consoles since 1974 and have over 70 PS3 games (not including free from PS+). :P

[ps3freak18]

I hope you're not putting me on the "PC Elitist" side of things, it might be my main gaming platform but I do own over 25 consoles since 1974 and have over 70 PS3 games (not including free from PS+). :P

Not at all. Just making a joke about PC Elitist thinking. You know the ones that think every possible thing that looks good for console is 15 years out of date compared to PC. I'm talking about you being satisfied with both consoles and PCs.

[Cyn]

Valve is in partnership with Xi3. Sure Valve will have other partnerships to manufacture Steam Boxes like Dell (Alienware) are too but what I'm showing is that for the price you can see the specs. At a low price you won't have any problems playing any modern game.

But you still aren't listening. There will be one cheaper than that

[Shibby]

Eh I still don't really get the Steambox.

PC gamers will have no interest in it. The only reason PC games dip into the console market is to play the exclusives they don't have available on PC. Steambox library won't have that.

And (This depends on where Steambox would be priced) if I, as a console gamer, am going to go into the PC market, I'm personally going to build a PC, not buy a Steambox.

So their biggest market is going to be the console gamer that wants to try PC games but doesn't want a PC, which seems pretty limited to me.

I know they ultimately want all of PC gaming to focus on Linux since it's free and potentially much better for game devs. Since Valve knows first hand how prevalent laziness is, they know devs aren't just going to drop their entire Windows setup, and if the Steambox is going to force devs to act on that switch sooner, they'll probably see it as a success.

[Varsh]

Yes and no, you've pretty much thought what I'm thinking except that there's one thing, not everyone wants a big box of chocolates and prefer them not to be on show. Being about the size (or a teeny nit bigger) of a Gamecube and wireless it means that it can be tucked away out of sight. Not sure if anyone has seen the pictures of the thing sitting behind a monitor on the VESA mount, it looks great.

We'll need to see what happens but I honestly think that this is going to be big but with a very slow start until people start to catch on about it.

But you still aren't listening. There will be one cheaper than that

It'll still play game decently at least anyway just I guess the most recent ones at medium-ish settings. ^^;