The Steam Machine

[Guinea]

Ok so I want one. I just think it's neat.

It gives off evil Gamecube vibes. Nice.

 

[R66-Y]

The Gabecube

 

[MajesticSiN]

I want the whole setup

 

[Blamhammer]

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

It's like some kind of game... cube :O

 

[Ibbie]

ALL HAIL THE GABECUBE

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It's like some kind of game... cube :O

 

[χKai]

Still haven't seen one produce any steam. 0/10 False Advertising

 

[iisoide]

With Portal's 20th anniversary coming up in 2027, maybe they should re-skin it to be some sort of orange box...

 

[nobitakun]

Depending on the price, it can be interesting. The size? too big for my taste.

 

[Leguminoso]

Reminds me of a giant Ouya.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

If valve actually marketed this to the general public this has the change to disrupt and permanently alter the console market in a way not seen since the launch of the Original Playstation.

The steamdeck can already run every PS5 & Xbox series X game- And that's a handheld.
A gamecube sized computer, booting steam OS/Big picture that has Steam sales & the ability to still access de-listed games- something not possible on any console?

Gaben, please MARKET THIS

And lets not forget that if some one has the capability to browse a file manager, every Nintendo game becomes emulatable with many having online functionality.
No more paying $80 for a 20 year of bare boned port.

Same goes for installing none-steam games. Valve has never implemented ecosystem restrictions this can just as easily be a GoG, MAME or Sega machine.

Valve really is the poster child as to why private corporations can be a force for good, they just require good ethical management.
Something that a public corporation with its competing shareholders is fundamentally capable of achieving due to conflict of interests.

Praise GabeN

 

[PhaseJump]

Reminds me of a giant Ouya.

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That thing would topple over with the weight of the HDMI cable when you hooked it up. It was the peak of entertainment.

Ok so I want one. I just think it's neat.

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It gives off evil Gamecube vibes. Nice.

A lunch box without a handle is true evil. I hope it will be worth the weight.

 

[Mr. SyS]

I'm out of desk space.

 

[PhaseJump]

dbrand is making a Companion Cube skin for it.

 

[nathman]

I already have a Steam Deck so I don't have much use for this. The Steam Controller is interesting though, and depending on how much it costs I might pick it up.

 

[DjQuick2008]

Looks good can see it selling well ill be getting one. passed on the nintendo switch 2.

 

[SpectreOverflow]

The thing that makes me the most excited about this slate of new Valve hardware isn't something they explicitly announced but seems to be heavily alluded to: the Steam Machine can stream Steam games to the Steam Frame, and the Steam Frame itself is ARM-based but runs SteamOS, which itself is based on Arch Linux with a KDE desktop environment. Hopefully, this all means that SteamVR is finally, finally coming to Linux.
Given Valve's heavy focus on Linux as of late, I was kind of surprised that SteamVR didn't work on Linux without a lot of finagling. As an active VRChat player, one of the only reasons I haven't made the jump from Windows 11 to Linux on my main desktop is simply because of how difficult VR was to get working on Linux.

 

[SeventhSon]

 

[moonbits]

You know you need it, It's good for you