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I wonder if at the end of the coming console cycle there will actually be no need for new "consoles" per se. That is, effectively a "steambox" which will likely
by dageshi 13y ago
I wonder if at the end of the coming console cycle there will actually be no need for new "consoles" per se. That is, effectively a "steambox" which will likely just be a well designed, well integrated PC will be cheap enough and powerful enough to compete directly with whatever new console comes out.
Essentially the PC eats the console market?
Removing windows from the equation would be a necessary step in bringing down the price of such a device and would allow Valve to squeeze every last drop of performance out of a device in the same way that Sony and Microsoft do with their respective console OS's.
- AJ007 13y agoSomething I've been thinking about is the smartphone release cycle verse the console release cycle. Valve could inflict a lot of damage on Microsoft and Sony's market share just by releasing an incrementally better Steambox once a year. Consumers don't want to buy a new $1,000 computer once a year, but many are close to doing it with their phones. The subscription/contract masks to cost to a degree. I'm not sure what the economics will come down to, but a new Steambox once every 6 years seems quite unlikely.
- hrkristian 13y agoAs SteamBoxes are modular much like a regular stationary computer, I should think the GPU would see more upgrades than the rest, making the annual upgrade budget much lower than that of a smartphone...