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Interesting. Game controllers are a fascinating user experience design challenge. While Playstation and Xbox controllers are fairly well-polished functional wor
by chasing 13y ago
Interesting. Game controllers are a fascinating user experience design challenge. While Playstation and Xbox controllers are fairly well-polished functional workhorses, I appreciate companies (like Nintendo and, now, Valve) pushing the envelope.
More than even the games (which, I suspect, will also mostly be available on other consoles or PCs), this intrigues me enough to want to get a Steam Machine. (Still, though -- that's a bit of a cumbersome name.)
- ivarious 13y agoJust call it a "Machine".
- leishulang 13y agotry to google the price for "Machine"
- ijk 13y agoValve has a high page-rank for "Steam", what makes you think that they can't also co-opt "Machine"?
- adambard 13y ago"Steambox" works well enough.
- Danieru 13y agoLets call it "The One", just to spite MS's marketers.
- Keyframe 13y agoEven if it doesn't work, we can expect something to spawn from that in the future. Joypads tend to evolve across companies and products. Remember D-Pad and start-select from NES and L+R and 4 group buttons from SNES, then N64 with analogue stick and rumble while PS1 had handles and Saturn added analogue L-R, Dreamcast take it from there, Xbox took what Dreamcast had and perfected it over two iterations, while Sony... ah you get it.
- pyrocat 13y agoI'm guessing "Steambox" will become the nickname
- synthhead 13y agoThey may be pushing for people to casually refer to it as "steam", allowing for tighter integration with the money maker.
- sejje 13y agoHell, I want to get one to use with my PC.