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Valve announces SteamOS
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ashecitism
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Can a mod or the OP please edit the title or OP to indicate the next announcement? All these questions are tiresome now.
Don't know if this means anything to you GAF or if possibly SteamOS/Box Related, but Nvidia announced that they will begin publishing Open GPU Documentation
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I have already made a thread about it earlier today.
lol oh you
It was never dying.
Wednesday, and probably Friday for the next announcements.
Valve probably should have made all of these announcements at once, would stem some of this confusion.
Of course, everything they are revealing this week they have been discussing at length for over a year.
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LOL. It's cool, no harm done!
DeejayKnight
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I'll install SteamOS on my TV box the day they make it available, with a smile on my face.
NoPiece
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A Boot Camp like solution would be more viable, and might be good for Valve to include.
Laidlaw just said that all the announcements relate to Steam. A Steamworks game being announced technically falls under that banner.
an actual megaton. Great news.
off topic but what does it mean/what's the meme when people say BASED xxx ?
If Laidlaw was a marketing/PR rep I would take those statements with a grain of salt.
Since he isn't, I will take them more literally. I doubt there will be a game announcement this week.
Even if a game is announced, it's not going to be HL3 (as the person who tweeted him was suggesting), but rather L4D3 -- the little evidence we have that both exist suggests the latter is (seemingly much) further along.
ashecitism
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Or it's going to be Hocking's and Church's joint project 
DouglasteR
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Get a switch.
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DouglasteR
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1 - SteamOS
2 - SteamBox Certification
3 - Source² with LFD3 to show what it CAN DO
2 - SteamBox Certification
3 - Source² with LFD3 to show what it CAN DO
Thought there was confirmation of no new software announcements.
Guess at tech demo could be shown if Source 2 is revealed.
SteamOS is technically a software announcement.
See the previous page -- basically, if you're an optimist, you can assume Laidlaw was just being coy as he didn't categorically deny a game announcement.DouglasteR
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I find the announcement a bit confusing....(maybe because Valve is trying to sell it for far more than is actually is?)
This doesn't change anything relatively to the current Steam platform on Windows PCs? They're not asking people to install a Linux based os to play Steam games on a PC.
If that's the case this is basically the announcement of the OS which will power their upcoming Steambox with the plus that they're going to make it free and compatible with mobile devices so that it could be used to stream games on those platforms as well.
Basically the direction that everyone is taking...
This doesn't change anything relatively to the current Steam platform on Windows PCs? They're not asking people to install a Linux based os to play Steam games on a PC.
If that's the case this is basically the announcement of the OS which will power their upcoming Steambox with the plus that they're going to make it free and compatible with mobile devices so that it could be used to stream games on those platforms as well.
Basically the direction that everyone is taking...
EatChildren
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Announcement 2: SteamBox.
Announcement 3: Valve controller, Greenlight revamp, or some connectivity/community thing.
Source 2 and Left 4 Dead 3 revealed later as a Game Informer cover story, maybe before the year is out, if not very early next year.
Announcement 3: Valve controller, Greenlight revamp, or some connectivity/community thing.
Source 2 and Left 4 Dead 3 revealed later as a Game Informer cover story, maybe before the year is out, if not very early next year.
The Cowboy
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My biggest worry for the next few years on this will be.
In a few years it would be horrible is it ended up having a load of games that will use SteamOS and not support Windows, and a load of games that support Windows but not SteamOS. Right now most PC games are Windows (with fraction supporting other operating systems), it would be pretty bad IMO if in a few years time it ended up with 50% supporting SteamOS style operating systems only and 50% supporting Windows operating systems only.
Sure people will say "you can dual boot" or "you can have 2 PCs, 1 for each", but I really think that would be a horrible way for PC gaming to end up.
I really hope it ends up with everything being available on everything, all Windows games will support SteamOS etc and all SteamOS games will support Windows etc..
In a few years it would be horrible is it ended up having a load of games that will use SteamOS and not support Windows, and a load of games that support Windows but not SteamOS. Right now most PC games are Windows (with fraction supporting other operating systems), it would be pretty bad IMO if in a few years time it ended up with 50% supporting SteamOS style operating systems only and 50% supporting Windows operating systems only.
Sure people will say "you can dual boot" or "you can have 2 PCs, 1 for each", but I really think that would be a horrible way for PC gaming to end up.
I really hope it ends up with everything being available on everything, all Windows games will support SteamOS etc and all SteamOS games will support Windows etc..
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Yes it would suck. But Valve certainly wants everything to be available everywhere they have a Steam client so I do not worry.
This is about reaching ever more people, not less!
Eteric Rice
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Gah, this announcement comes like two weeks after I buy my new PC. -_-
Oh well.
Oh well.
This is true.
Valve is about reaching as many customers as possible, not lowering their potential market.
You will be able to build a more powerful machine for less than what the OEM's will be able to offer.
We are not the target audience for the announcements this week. Though we will have some tertiary benefit, dual boot the OS, controller, streaming, etc.
Felix Lighter
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I don't think there is anything to worry about aside from maybe some very Linux friendly indies. I could see a move away from Direct3D but I don't see many developers abandoning Windows entirely unless it becomes a platform impractical for gaming.
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Sweet, jd!
Well, they way it works is that only portion of games will be ported to SteamOS at first. Valve will have to somehow incentivize developers, maybe by lower cut of revenue on SteamOS? I doubt there will be SteamOS exclusive games (not on Windows). That makes no sense for developers at all.
If I was Valve, I would also partner with some larger companies doing applications for Windows and somehow work with them to provide basic features that people want from their HTPC, like media servers and players, optimized for big screen and controller usage.
They need to provide this from start, so users are satisfied with switch and dont switch back to Windows. If they just let it be, maybe apps will come, maybe they wont, and it will take years.
"Very early next year" is still too early if Valve is aiming for a Q4 release. I'd expect a late-Q1 announcement at the earliest, a la Portal 2, assuming Q4 is on the cards -- but even that may be generous as L4D2 was released ~six months after being announced and CS:GO was originally scheduled to do the same, so it's possible we may have to wait until E3/the middle of the year.
ashecitism
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I just want another 2003 E3-esque presentation/moment
I'm gonna go with fake. Remember that they made a distinctive statement on the living room site about getting the community more involved in the design process. O+O almost certainly has something to do with that, multiple SteamOSes/users working together on "design."
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