Valve Launches First Generation Steam Machines
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toniglandyl
it's materiel.net not material.net 😉 it's a French site.
EDIT : seems like info on the boxes are available here : http: //media.steampowered.com/store/steammachines/SteamMachinesBroc_WEB.PDF
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southamptonfc
Sorry, please delete!
krisby
I'm not clear on how this will work, I assume as it is using the existing steam library that it will continue to use windows games, therefore how can this run without an emulator? seems pointless buying what is essentially a linux games console with a built in emulator to run windows games.
But I imagine I am missing something here, so how is this meant to work?
EDIT: Nevermind, just found that the games will be developed to run natively. I did wonder that initially but sounded like such a large exercise for what is a niche product, but if Steam want to waste their time and money doing it, more power to them, I just hope that doesn't affect the price of windows game titles when they need to move money round the balance sheet.
F1refly
Either some makers are also putting Windows on those machines as a dual boot config or they got their numbers wrong. I don't think Linux has that many games unless they are including the potentials from the use of WINE?
teleguy
WhiteLightning
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lol @ starting at $499
TheDeeGee
The one from Alienware looks like what you would expect a Steam Machine to look like, a console.
But it's 3 times overpriced, which is to be expected with Failianware.
2450 Dollars for a system with a 4770K and 780 Ti.
http://ic.tweakimg.net/ext/i/imagelarge/1389105891.png
scatman839
With mantle hopefully delivering large performance gains soon it kind of renders the whole having to use linux thing to get around antique directx obselete anyway.
AlexKidd5000
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