I'm guessing it allows streaming of Steam games from your PC. Which wouldn't require vast hardware. That along with all the media streaming and perhaps installable 'GabeCube' compatable indie games, it looks pretty neat.
I'm guessing it allows streaming of Steam games from your PC. Which wouldn't require vast hardware. That along with all the media streaming and perhaps installable 'GabeCube' compatable indie games, it looks pretty neat.
That's a very expensive cable they want to sell.Originally Posted by Rossi
Gabecube, NICE Rossi.
I hope valve calls their steambox that when they show it.
Here are the specifics they mentioned on their failed Kickie (for the X7A model):
Looks miles ahead of the consoles, but the GFX could be an issue.
Link to the actual kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...he-post-pc-era
Noone except THE ENTIRE INTERNET.
I'll wait to see if Valve officially endorse it before I go "This is what I was trying to tell you about" because in another thread last year someone was telling me that I was an idiot for believing that Valve would want their own SteamBox.
Anyway there's no way this will be overly powerful. It'll either be for indie games or as Rossi suggested just a small box to stream to, at which point you might as well not have it. I can just tell by the size of the unit that it hasn't got overly powerful hardware under the hood.
I know they're calling it modular, but from what I can see of it, this is one of the least modular computers available. If I want, I can go out right now, hell even online and replace my graphics or ram or whatever else I want. With this steambox, it looks like I can maybe replace or add in an SSD.
If my psu breaks, I replace it. If my HDD breaks, I replace it. If my graphics card breaks I replace it. If anything breaks in the xi3 I probably have to send it off for repair.
You'd all buy one in a flash if they put it on sale for 90% off.
Even then it's not clear exactly what it's supposed to do. It's too small for it to have any decent hardware so either it'll only be playing indie games (which I don't think is reason enough to get it) or it's just a glorified streaming client (and I don't think any of us want that).
So you guys actually thought that the "steam computer" project was something that was aimed at gamers to replace the desktop? Silly you then. Making pc gaming accessible to "normal" people isn't supposed to produce anything of interest to those of us who build their own rigs.
I think they'll try make it so that it'll compete with consoles. As jnx said, the steambox isn't for us. It's for console gamers. It's for big picture, controller and console level graphics and gameplay, not for those of us who demand higher resolution, higher textures and more fps than we can shake a stick at.
It's unlikely it's going to be "off the shelf" and it's going to be customized to what Steam are looking for.
Look at it - it doesn't even seem to be capable of that. It's tiny, they're not going to be running PC games even at 720p at 30FPS. Unless they happen to be indie games, and even then I doubt that's such a big drawcard that this is going to shift units. Either that thing is going to be woefully underpowered or it uses dark magic from apostate tech priests. A decent GPU would not fit inside that thing, it'd cook itself, let alone a matching CPU.
AppleTV for PC Games. I'm bettin.
Why are there no quotes from Valve anywhere about this? Unless Valve starts subsidizing the hardware side of things, no one will buy this. Remember how the PS3's $500+ launch was received?
I'm still not sure this is the steambox anymore than galaxy was the android phone.
It looks a little around the same size as a gamecube. It's made smaller by virtue of no moving parts.
This is what the Xi3's beefiest model contains
So first off, what you see in that picture is a prototype, it's not the finished product. It could be bigger, it could be smaller.
The graphics are quiet able to handle it's own when it comes to games. 8GB of RAM is basically standard.
As I said, it's not going to run crysis at 120 million fps, but it doesn't have to. It has to run AssCreed 3, the next GTA and the next CoD at respectable fps and smoothness. At 30fps you're pleasing the consolers, more than that and you're likely to start winning some of the hearts of PC fans who will accept a frame and graphics drop.
Last edited by Jesus_Phish; 08-01-2013 at 12:02 PM.
From those initial specs, it looks quite impressive.
I remember reading an interview with someone at this company a year or two ago who mentioned they wanted to offer every component including video cards in this small form factor so you could potentially build a fairly decent machine if you stacked enough cubes together. It's a cool idea, and certainly makes building your own pc more accessible for the masses.
Bingo. Kinda surprised by the amount of pc gamers who seem to want to replace their desktops with a console-like Steambox "if the specs are right".
Last edited by buemba; 08-01-2013 at 12:08 PM.
Add me: Steam
Is this the point where I should be making a penis joke?
Theres also another issue, PC Gaming is a hobbyist pursuit. Building the PC, getting it working and tweaking it is all part of the PC Gaming experience for many people. I'd hate it if a single all singing all dancing box, even if its from one of the most revered PC gaming companies, came a long and basically told us that all our efforts are for nothing.
Well it will really be going not steams, but smokes after all the dust sets in it. Honestly specs are partly mindblowing to me, that thing is smaller than my first ffs.
It might be better than current gen consoles, but it will have to improve a lot, if it wants to compete with next gen.
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Angel and demon, man and beast art thou,
Yea, thou art all thou dost appear to be!
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