you think maybe they will have blue available seeing thier vita boxed are that color anyhows?

also am i seeing a disk slot on that steambox?

I really hope they do well with the Steam Box.

But I'm left with some questions though. I know that Steam has some 50 million users, but these are users whom a significant number of them own decent PC rigs. I'm not sure what the incentive is going to be to persuade them to buy this, just so they could play games that they're already capable of playing on their PC.

It seems like we might have a EXHIBIT Meme going on here; "Hey Dawg, I heard you like Steam".

Unless their focus is on an entirely different market from the guys already playing on their PC's maybe? It seems like the Steam Box would have been a great competitor to the PS3 and Xbox 360 as the graphical differences would have been much more obvious. But now with the PS4 and Xbox 720 being as powerful as they are, I think Valve might find it hard to convince people to go with the new kid on the block.

But I guess time will tell for sure, so let's play the "wait and see" game for now.

That is exactly the point: to get people that might otherwise be intimidated by PC gaming to jump on board. They want to make the PC platform more accessible.

Sounds good to me.

You do realise MS bullied their way into both the OS market and console market?

Karma, it catches up with everyone eventually.

Links -

When asked why Microsoft decided to enter the console space, he asserted that, "The main reason was to stop Sony."

http://au.ign.com/articles/...

“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.” -Steve Jobs, Apple

http://www.winrumors.com/st...

Fragmented? How in the hell is Linux fragmented?! It's the only big time computer OS to be natively supported on ARM, x86, x64, and a few other microprocessor types. There's a couple package managers, but .deb is used by most of the user base and it pretty much "standard." You provide a .deb package, you provide for most of the Linux community. I don't see any other OS offering one format for all their platforms, no? Apple and Microsoft to chose to have 100% different OS's. Heck, Metro is based on HTML5 so it can what Linux does. Talk about a hack to get that going! But executable work between every distro provided the architecture is the same. The packages, like said, are the only thing that differ. To say that's fragmented, you have to be very, very stupid with Linux.

Fragmented...ha. What an idiotic comment...really.

@3GenGames Are you series? You know how many different distros there are and then we wont even talk Unity, Gnome, KDE, and Enlightenment