Valve Console Rumours

[Blink]

According to The Verge, word is Valve have plans to create their own 'Steam Box' console:

Apparently meetings were held during CES to demo a hand-built version of the device to potential partners. We're told that the basic specs of the Steam Box include a Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GPU. The devices will be able to run any standard PC titles, and will also allow for rival gaming services (like EA's Origin) to be loaded up.

Read more console gossip in the full post.

[Text_Fish]

If I can't get it by hitting tilde I'm not interested.

[Chrille]

Sounds incredible (if it's true), but I'm not sure whether I would need it or not, seeing as I'm already pretty content with Steam on my PC, but I'd probably end up buying it anyway.

[Spike]

Fuck consoles. Give me EP3

[source-maps]

can't they just stick to one thing and be very good at it

still waiting on EP3 and a SKD that's not dated from 1999

[Phott]

For fuck sake, I hope this is not true. Valve needs to stop making the move to consoles, NOW.

[TheDanishMaster]

I was wondering if they ever did this.. And it seems so

[Jasard]

HL3 to launch bundled with it?

[stoopdapoop]

guys, cool your jets, it's just a pc.

[Valar]

Ok hold on one sec.

Now do you see a future where Valve is actually selling hardware or do you just want to have things that could take advantage of that technology should it be popular?

Well, if we have to sell hardware we will. We have no reason to believe we’re any good at it, it’s more we think that we need to continue to have innovation and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us going and developing and selling the hardware directly then that’s what we’ll do. It’s definitely not the first thought that crosses our mind; we’d rather hardware people that are good at manufacturing and distributing hardware do that. We think it’s important enough that if that’s what we end up having to do then that’s what we end up having to do.

Taken from the Penny Arcade Interview..

[stoopdapoop]

Also they've been toying with biofeedback and how it improved peoples experiences in L4D when the director factored player "arousal" and "valence", as well as other interesting experiments.

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publicatio ... binder.pdf

[Valar]

Gabe basically in that interview promoted Valve coming out with Hardware AND said he didn't think they were any good at it IN THE SAME SENTENCE.
It sort of sits well with the overall ambiguity of that interview but i'm still kind of lost TBH.

[Armageddon]

Fuck consoles. Give me EP3

Sorry Valve, but now I've kind of lost hope in you.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Yeah, I feel exactly like valar, but it could be mind tricks.

[Gary]

Also they've been toying with biofeedback and how it improved peoples experiences in L4D when the director factored player "arousal" and "valence", as well as other interesting experiments.

http://www.valvesoftware.com/publicatio ... binder.pdf

Very interesting read! And I would love to see the heart rate of my opponents increase as I start destroying them

Based off this, I would think they would just make some biofeedback add-ons. Which, if they weren't too expensive and games I played properly utilized, I would buy.