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Okay, what I don't get, how could Valve get that many partners to offer Steam Machines? Seeing as how little games for Linux there currently are? Did Valve tell

by yaeger 13y ago

Okay, what I don't get, how could Valve get that many partners to offer Steam Machines? Seeing as how little games for Linux there currently are? Did Valve tell them something we don't know? Like, every major Engine Developer is about to offer an OpenGL option that would allow devs to continue to work just as they do now but the resulting binary could be created with OpenGL instead of DX? I know that you can stream your Windows games through the Steam Box but come on. If I wanted to do that, I could already run an hdmi cable from my PC directly to my TV and don't need an extra box in between.

kayoone 13y ago
Basically these are just PC manufacturers and the Steam Machines are just PCs. So for them its more or less business as usual, and many of them (like Alienware) already had quite similar systems on sale. With the possibility of the Steam Machine brand resulting in more sales for products they would be selling in a similar form anyway, it was an easy sell i guess. It could potentially be a huge business to sell the best steam machines on the market.
captainmuon 13y ago
The gaming PC market is shrinking. Basically nobody buys pre-built gaming PCs anymore. It makes a lot of sense for manufacturers to join forces under a common label. And now with most of the Steam games available for Linux, and many more running nicely under Wine, Linux has almost caught up with Mac. I switched to OSX (with a Windows dual-boot option) on my new PC, because it runs most of the games I played, because it offers all the Unix stuff I need for work, and still runs the consumer software (MS Office) I occasionally need. Now that a critical amount of games are running on Linux, I'm thinking about ditching OSX and going Linux(+Windows for the occasional odd app) on all of my devices.
dageshi 13y ago
It's the android model. Valve make the reference hardware and OS, the PC manufacturers build the boxes. The PC manufacturers are betting that Steambox will let them tap into the console market which is both huge and currently unavailable too them.

by yaeger 13y ago

kayoone 13y ago

Basically these are just PC manufacturers and the Steam Machines are just PCs. So for them its more or less business as usual, and many of them (like Alienware) already had quite similar systems on sale. With the possibility of the Steam Machine brand resulting in more sales for products they would be selling in a similar form anyway, it was an easy sell i guess. It could potentially be a huge business to sell the best steam machines on the market.

captainmuon 13y ago

The gaming PC market is shrinking. Basically nobody buys pre-built gaming PCs anymore. It makes a lot of sense for manufacturers to join forces under a common label. And now with most of the Steam games available for Linux, and many more running nicely under Wine, Linux has almost caught up with Mac. I switched to OSX (with a Windows dual-boot option) on my new PC, because it runs most of the games I played, because it offers all the Unix stuff I need for work, and still runs the consumer software (MS Office) I occasionally need. Now that a critical amount of games are running on Linux, I'm thinking about ditching OSX and going Linux(+Windows for the occasional odd app) on all of my devices.

dageshi 13y ago

It's the android model. Valve make the reference hardware and OS, the PC manufacturers build the boxes. The PC manufacturers are betting that Steambox will let them tap into the console market which is both huge and currently unavailable too them.